From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: two more emacs questions Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:37:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <009d01c70a7b$6731f190$6b01a8c0@dimalaptop> <007501c70b41$38a95630$6b01a8c0@dimalaptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164188786 16436 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 09:46:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 10:46:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmogE-0003rR-Ij for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:46:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmogD-0004FW-Hg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:46:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!proxad.net!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Dnaxq/YNr4LYJ8gkL6vuiglHdm1+ukeizAsvobm71RMK262xlZ User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xLVjUSjcQolnHRpkUXRNN+pEyWk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143266 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38883 Archived-At: "vb" writes: > well, that's the thing - I am a user, not a computer, I don't care > if typing keys changes the buffer or not. As a user I expect the > undo sequence to exactly follow my actions in the reverse order. I > just checked - even MS Word does this (brings back the highlight in > the undo stream). One could argue the same about cursor movements, that they should be undoable, but they are not, neither in Emacs nor MS Word. In Emacs though, it is quite possible to implement. To some extent C-u C-SPC is a good workaround for this "limitation". Personally I have never seen the need for undoing highlighted text. And the highlight you mention Word handles undo of is not the "mark hilight" on marked text. Anyway, nice that you have try out Emacs, you might find, after some time, that it is superior to all other text editors... :)