From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: undo: changes outside of visible portion of buffer Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 11:41:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83bnvxhftm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mwfh3fpd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397896886 12254 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2014 08:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 08:41:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 19 10:41:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WbQpp-0003um-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:41:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbQpp-0006ei-D8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 04:41:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbQpZ-0006I2-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 04:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbQpR-0005ej-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 04:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:36767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbQpQ-0005eS-Sz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 04:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N4900100RUGL500@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 11:40:51 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N49001LSS435L90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 11:40:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87mwfh3fpd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97221 Archived-At: > From: Eric Abrahamsen > Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:07:26 +0800 > > I'm trying to undo a fairly large chunk of text deletion, and emacs is > telling me: > > undo-more: Changes to be undone are outside visible portion of buffer > > I get this no matter where I scroll in the buffer -- it's only about > three screenfuls. I had undo-tree-mode active when I did the deletion, > but I get the same error whether it's active or no. > > I'd like this text back, and I don't care if it's not visible! I can't > find any switches that might allow me to circumvent the error -- what > options do I have here? I think "visible" here means the narrowed region, not visible on display. Do you have any kind of narrowing in that buffer? If so, try "M-x widen RET".