From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: disabling undo boundaries
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 07:39:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si7uibji.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egjehkk7.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Fri, 07 Aug 2015 22:10:00 +0100")
phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> The problem _I_ see is that it is in general not just "a command" which
>> may touch another buffer, but also compilation buffers, timer events,
>> font lock and a number of other background activities not immediately
>> caused by key presses.
>
>
> I don't think this is an issue, because Emacs is single-threaded. So,
> all of these events happen *between* commands which, in general, means
> that an undo-boundary has gone onto the current-buffer anyway.
Not for self-insert-command. Not for stuff like shell-command-on-region
that has to wait for material to arrive.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-08 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-10 21:43 disabling undo boundaries Phillip Lord
2015-05-11 1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 11:46 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-11 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 16:31 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-11 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 20:42 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-11 22:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-12 11:52 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-12 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-12 20:59 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-13 12:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-13 15:40 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-14 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-15 12:27 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-15 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-15 19:49 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-15 23:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-16 13:31 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-19 11:59 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-19 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-19 21:48 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-20 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-20 7:45 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-20 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-21 11:15 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-21 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-21 17:03 ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-27 11:46 ` Phillip Lord
2015-06-29 0:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-04 14:18 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-06 21:02 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-06 22:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-07 13:40 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-07 13:59 ` David Kastrup
2015-08-07 21:10 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-08 5:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-08-08 9:58 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-07 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-08 21:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-09 15:39 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-09 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-09 16:50 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-09 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-10 9:27 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-10 21:21 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-12 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-12 22:34 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-13 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-21 9:40 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-07 23:49 ` Davis Herring
2015-08-08 10:01 ` Phillip Lord
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