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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: KAction@gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-undo-tree.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:15:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn97syju.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1451235515-20440-1-git-send-email-KAction@gnu.org> (KAction@gnu.org's message of "Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:58:35 +0300")

KAction@gnu.org skribis:

> From: Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>
>
>   * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-undo-tree): New variable.
 ^^^
Extra space here.

> +    (synopsis "Treat undo history as a tree")
> +    (description "Emacs has a powerful undo system.  Unlike the standard
> +undo/redo system in most software, it allows you to recover *any* past
> +state of a buffer (whereas the standard undo/redo system can lose past
> +states as soon as you redo).  However, this power comes at a price: many
> +people find Emacs' undo system confusing and difficult to use, spawning
> +a number of packages that replace it with the less powerful but more
> +intuitive undo/redo system.
> +
> +Both the loss of data with standard undo/redo, and the confusion of
> +Emacs' undo, stem from trying to treat undo history as a linear sequence
> +of changes.  It's not.  The @code{undo-tree-mode} provided by this
> +package replaces Emacs' undo system with a system that treats undo
> +history as what it is: a branching tree of changes.  This simple idea
> +allows the more intuitive behaviour of the standard undo/redo system to
> +be combined with the power of never losing any history.  An added side
> +bonus is that undo history can in some cases be stored more efficiently,
> +allowing more changes to accumulate before Emacs starts discarding
> +history.")

Could you strip the description so that it’s at most 8 lines?

Otherwise LGTM.

Thanks, and sorry for the delay!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-27 16:58 [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-undo-tree KAction
2015-12-30 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-30 18:06 KAction
2016-01-04 23:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-26 23:06 [PATCH] gnu: add emacs-undo-tree KAction
2015-12-27 14:00 ` Alex Kost

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