From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Redo/Undo (was: etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), ...)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:11:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85mzm8rwer.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dgnbuc$s3e$1@agate.berkeley.edu
Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
> B. Smith
> <bpsm@aon.at>], who wrote in article
> <mailman.7386.1127026972.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
Your practice of "complimentary copies" is a pain in the ass, in
particular when sent from a spam-address. There is no reason for you
to assume that people replying to you on a mailing list do not
actually read the mailing list.
>> There is redo functionality it just doesn't present itself as a
>> separate action. If you interrupt a series of undo operations with an
>> editing operation
>
> Sigh... This was most probably beaten to death thousands times
> already. Of course I know of this poor-man workaround for missing
> redo. It is NOT A REPLACEMENT as far user-interface is concerned.
> It requires an exponential amount of keypresses w.r.t. situation
> when redo is present.
>
> With redo you can do the following (and I do it all the time):
>
> a) go back in time;
>
> b) Maybe I overshoot? go forward in time a little bit. No I did not;
>
> c) So I go back in time some more.
>
> d) Jump to b.
There is no clear notion about when to abandon history, and which
parts of "going back in time" are actually intended as a forward
change. If you want to ignore this, there is redo.el, and apart from
that CVS-Emacs has undo-only which just goes backwards without
destroying the undo history when you add new changes.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-20 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-11 11:01 etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), but then how can i jump BACK(the calling line)? zhengfish
2005-09-11 13:43 ` Ian Zimmerman
2005-09-11 14:57 ` Peter Lee
2005-09-11 20:39 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-09-11 20:42 ` David Kastrup
2005-09-13 7:14 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-09-13 8:04 ` David Kastrup
2005-09-17 0:58 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-09-17 6:39 ` David Kastrup
2005-09-18 1:05 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-09-18 7:00 ` Redo/Undo (was: etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), ...) B. Smith
2005-09-19 14:07 ` etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), but then how can i jump BACK(the calling line)? Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.7386.1127026972.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-19 21:52 ` Redo/Undo (was: etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), ...) Ilya Zakharevich
2005-09-20 8:11 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-09-20 22:50 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2005-09-21 2:47 ` Redo/Undo Stefan Monnier
2005-09-13 17:26 ` etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), but then how can i jump BACK(the calling line)? Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.6922.1126632664.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-16 23:12 ` Ilya Zakharevich
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=85mzm8rwer.fsf@lola.goethe.zz \
--to=dak@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.