From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The *Warnings* buffer and undo Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:53:05 +0200 Message-ID: <460D6AA1.4050704@gmail.com> References: <460583AD.7010002@gmail.com> <85abxxw46j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85y7lfsxso.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175309268 31651 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2007 02:47:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:47:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 30 21:53:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HXNAR-0002dj-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:53:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXND9-0006J3-Pa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HXNCa-0004NB-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HXNCY-0004FD-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXNCX-0004Cy-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:55:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HXN9m-0002Xs-Bk; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:59435 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HXN9j-0001FC-9U; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:53:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000729-0, 2007-03-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HXN9j-0001FC-9U. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HXN9j-0001FC-9U 2be4b745540f53c832b1c0eff4faad15 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68809 Glenn Morris wrote: > Richard Stallman wrote: > >> work out. The best that a program could do in this regard is set >> buffer-undo-list to t before doing its changes, and to nil afterwards. >> >> That sounds like a good solution -- better than suppressing undo 100% >> in that buffer. > > Can we just leave this alone for Emacs 22? There is no actual problem > we are trying to fix, other than the general sentiment that changes > produced by display-warning should not be undoable. I don't see any > harm in the current behaviour, and there seems to be no good, simple > solution. It is not a big problem, but perhaps it would then be best to just disable undo in the *Warnings* buffer?