From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Advice with undo config Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:28:32 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86370tqfsv.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86bmfhsn9g.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1521667708 29153 195.159.176.226 (21 Mar 2018 21:28:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:28:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 22:28:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eylHS-0007TY-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:28:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eylJV-0005OR-Vr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:30:30 -0400 X-Received: by 10.223.186.15 with SMTP id o15mr2023852wrg.32.1521667714113; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!n196no141219wmd.0!news-out.google.com!a12ni561wmg.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1iquVgkf7Q0WROJ47YUaOvxObRE= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222131 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116249 Archived-At: Nick Helm wrote: >> but is it reasonable to have >16 MB of undo >> data? A better question is probably "is it >> reasonable to do, and then undo, that much"? > > In an ideal world, wouldn't undo > be unlimited? I don't know, but you can have virtually unlimited undo in practice because what is stored is just text, and on today's HDs which can save tons of multimedia, what in past days would amount to huge archives, there is certainly room for all the undos anyone would ever care for. > Some commands can bump into the default undo > limits pretty quickly – > org-table-delete-column is a good example. > In those situations, the count of "do" is 2 > and you've already hit the limit. Isn't it > reasonable to expect a bit more than that? Well, if one has to pile up those kind of quantities of text data perhaps another column is called for instead? :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573