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Re: make undo operate as in (no flames please) vim
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David Kastrup |
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Re: make undo operate as in (no flames please) vim |
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Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:59:15 +0100 |
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Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
> IMO (this whole post is IMO) the single most confusing aspect of emacs
> in practice for old and new users alike -- although some people are
> amazingly not at all confused by it -- is undo.
>
> More generally, many commands have no good provision for overshooting.
> This applies to mark cycling, global mark cycling, and many other
> things. Most of them provide a ring instead of forward and backward
> commands. But undo provides a mechanism that is simple in principle
> but impossible (for probably the vast majority of users) in practice.
> And that's the "just undo the undo" problem.
Have you tried using undo-only instead of undo?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum