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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: with-temp-buffer: should we set buffer-undo-list to t?
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 09:38:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV--hQ2zCCXK2am8xrAJh9HWciA=EdhsxpaeQZ_HTxEO1yg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22724.36280.852934.614634@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 6:52 PM,  <raman@google.com> wrote:
> Would setting buffer-undo-list to t in the macro  definition of
> with-temp-buffer help save some work?
>
> At present we dont do this, and as a consequence, operations within
> body of with-tem-buffer may well push entries on the undo stack that
> just get thrown away.

Seems it already happens:

(with-temp-buffer
  buffer-undo-list) ;=> t

get-buffer-create has this code:

  bset_undo_list (b, SREF (name, 0) != ' ' ? Qnil : Qt);

So buffers starting with a space have the undo list set to t.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-12 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-11 23:52 with-temp-buffer: should we set buffer-undo-list to t? raman
2017-03-12 13:38 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-03-12 14:48   ` raman

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