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From: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Advice with undo config
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:27:54 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lgelqilx.fsf@tenpoint.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bmfhsn9g.fsf@zoho.com> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:04:27 +0100")

On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 at 12:04:27 +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Nick Helm wrote:
>
>> (setq undo-limit        (* 16 1024 1024)) [...]
>>
>> will there be any side-effects I should be
>> aware of? Are these numbers reasonable?
>
> There should not be any side-effects save for
> the increased storage, which is what you want,

Thanks. 

> but is it reasonable to have >16 MB of undo
> data? A better question is probably "is it
> reasonable to do, and then undo, that much"?

In an ideal world, wouldn't undo be unlimited?

Some commands can bump into the default undo limits pretty
quickly – org-table-delete-column is a good example. In those
situations, the count of "do" is 2 and you've already hit the
limit. Isn't it reasonable to expect a bit more than that?





  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11019.1521629334.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-03-21 11:04 ` Advice with undo config Emanuel Berg
2018-03-21 20:27   ` Nick Helm [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11055.1521664092.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-03-21 21:28     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-21 10:48 Nick Helm
2018-03-22 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-24  0:31   ` Nick Helm

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