Re: Undo'ing cursor movement keys

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

Bob wrote:
> Coming from the Windows world, one of the items that I became highly
> accustomed to with my editor, Codewright, was that you could UNDO
> printable characters as well as the cursor positioning/movement keys.
> 
> Is there any equivalent for emacs?  Can anyone point me to where/how to
> accomplish this?
> 
> For example, in codewright if I were at the top of the screen pressed
> 'a', right arrow, 'b', right arrow, 'c', then page down, page down.  I
> would move down 2 pages worth of text.  If I then did undo once, I
> would undo the page down, undo'ing a second time would undo the page
> down, a 3rd undo undoes the 'c', 4th undoes the right arrow key press,
> Another undo undoes the 'b', the next undo undoes the right arrow, and
> the last undoes the 'a'.  The important thing is that the the cursor
> movement keys were also pushed onto the undo stack.  This is what I
> want to do in emacs.  
> 
> Thanks
> Bob
> 

In the O'Reilly book, "Writing GNU EMACs Extensions", by Bob Glickstein,
ISBN 1565922611,
there is, IIRC, a minor mode to do this.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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