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On 26 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> That is nice but it seems that you are taking advantage of a chink in
> the emacs amour that allows one to undo something that actually does
> not get undone in reality: i.e. bad.  An opium dream allowing one to
> undo things in one's fantasy world that are indeed not undone when the
> boss needs to use them. A hack. A kludge.

Neither a hack nor a kludge, but rather a documented behavior, with a 
good reason for it.  Read all about it in the manual.