From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Undo manipulation Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:56:13 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F3BBF2D.3010009@yahoo.com> References: <87adac7du0.fsf@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060880658 1788 80.91.224.253 (14 Aug 2003 17:04:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 14 19:04:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19nLWL-0000se-00 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:04:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19nLTp-0005we-Pe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:01:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1060880163 550169 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115889 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11807 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11807 Bill Wohler wrote: > I don't want to add some manipulation to buffer-undo-list. For > example, let's say I have: > > 1. blah > 2. blah > xyz > 3. blah > > and I want an undo to hit #3, then #2 and then #1, leaving xyz alone. > Are there normal ways to do this? Like inserting markers in > buffer-undo-list to later remove desired elements. > > It just occurred to me that I could save buffer-undo-list into a > temporory variable, do my thing, and then restore the variable. Exactly: (let ((buffer-undo-list t)) (insert "xyz\n")) -- Kevin Rodgers