From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35344: 26.2; (elisp) `Undo' for `undo-auto-amalgamate' Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:29:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87tvbvth5t.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="53236"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 35344@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 09 16:30:11 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr8E-000Dek-Lz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50534 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr8D-0002nE-LK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59625) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr89-0002n7-06 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr87-0005D2-Ty for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr87-0005Cy-Pi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr86-0006yv-JZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:30:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35344 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35344-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35344.156268259826799 (code B ref 35344); Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35344) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jul 2019 14:29:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33670 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr81-0006yB-Tf for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:46998) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr7z-0006y0-9O for 35344@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hkr7v-00067n-2Y; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:29:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2019 08:27:16 -0700 (PDT)") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162473 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > This doc does not seem sufficient. Unlike the doc string, what it says > for `undo-auto-amalgamate' does not seem to describe the function at all. > > It seems to try to provide some info about amalgamating, but it does not > tell what this function does (AFAICT). > > Please describe this function. I've now done that. > But please also consider explaining how > to use it - that's not clear to me. Presumably you can use it to group > what would otherwise be separate undo pieces into a single undo chunk. > How to do that is not clear (to me), and there is no distributed Lisp > code that uses it, to refer to as an example. The only reference made > to its use is to C-coded functions (which are the only distributed > functions that use it). I knew nothing about it before reading the section, and it seems pretty clear to me what it does. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no