help with multiple UNDO operations

help with multiple UNDO operations

[Mickey Ferguson]

I'm using emacs 21.3.1 on Windows 2000.  In the past (version 20.x?) if I
entered C-u C-u C-u C-x u (four consecutive control U characters to set the
argument counter to 64, followed by a control x - u, which performs the undo
command), it would undo the last 64 sequences (character entry, cut, paste,
etc.).  Now it appears that the numeric argument part of the undo command no
longer works.  It always operates as if I had just entered a plain old C-x u
with no prefix.  Has something changed?  I looked in my .emacs and its
associated private library load and saw nothing that appeared to me to have
any possibility of affecting operation in this area.  Any suggestions?

Re: help with multiple UNDO operations

[Peter Dyballa]

Undo sometimes has another idea or concept of what was one event. When 
you wrote one sentence fluently without having to correct yourself, 
this is one event and yould be undone by one undo.

There is the scratch buffer to do such experiments, for examples with 
numbers typed in the wrong sequence you have to re-sort or transpose 
the digits ...
--
Greetings

   Pete

Re: help with multiple UNDO operations

[Mickey Ferguson]

This isn't what I'm talking about.  I am a reasonably fast typist, and I've
seen this operation and have no complaint about it.  I'm talking about if I
try to give a numeric argument to the undo operation, it only undoes one
operation.

"Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote in message
news:mailman.8056.1103710646.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> Undo sometimes has another idea or concept of what was one event. When
> you wrote one sentence fluently without having to correct yourself,
> this is one event and yould be undone by one undo.
>
> There is the scratch buffer to do such experiments, for examples with
> numbers typed in the wrong sequence you have to re-sort or transpose
> the digits ...
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
>
>