From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: undo in loaddefs.el buffer Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:25:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200412211414.iBLEEZ903426@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200412211541.iBLFfBc03861@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llbonyup.fsf@jurta.org> <200412260206.iBQ26wG17970@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <41CEE3B8.9090600@swipnet.se> <200412270231.iBR2VDE19709@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <41CFE247.8090409@swipnet.se> <200412280503.iBS53deD002564@manatee.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104255324 23123 80.91.229.6 (28 Dec 2004 17:35:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, yamaoka@jpl.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 28 18:35:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CjLFd-0003N6-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:35:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CjLQT-0004ug-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CjLPX-0004Vf-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CjLPS-0004TI-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CjLPR-0004SA-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:45:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CjLBo-0008Li-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:31:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CjL6E-00015C-R2; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:25:34 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200412280503.iBS53deD002564@manatee.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:03:39 -0600 (CST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31534 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31534 If, for instance, a timer is involved that runs once every five seconds, or even more frequently, then, after the quit, the timer will run again, make the undo entry even larger without adding an undo boundary and ask the question again. A timer that modifies the buffer should always create an undo boundary. Can people fix these timers to do so? Which programs are these timers in, anyway? We need to look at these issues in their specifics to be able to think about them.