From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: make undo operate as in (no flames please) vim Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:14:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4981c152$1@news.greennet.net> References: <87eiyusrn4.fsf@newsguy.com> <000f01c97e88$e231db20$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87vds3miqt.fsf@newsguy.com> <003501c97f0e$ba8c8210$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1233157281 25941 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2009 15:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:41:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 16:42:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LSCYT-0001ZU-Ve for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:42:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSCXB-0005BJ-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:40:57 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080303) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 29 Jan 2009 09:46:42 -0500, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 9 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166410 X-Original-Bytes: 1239 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61730 Archived-At: Samuel Wales wrote: > More generally, many commands have no good provision for > overshooting. Common problem, trivial solution. If you overshoot the undo, just hit any character, e.g. space. Then undo will start going backward, basically undoing the previous undo.