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bug#11445: 24.0.96; Customize buffer edit fields should have undo
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#11445: 24.0.96; Customize buffer edit fields should have undo |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:25:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Question is whether it's even well defined to do this differently.
>
> It's not that every text field has its own undo. Undo stops at points
> when widgets changed because undoing further would undo changes
> involving widgets, which ones are there, how they look like, etc. Since
> using widgets has side effects (like setting variables or saving) just
> undoing anything would potentially lead to an inconsistent state.
>
> How would you address this problem?
Not all actions in a custom buffer can be undone (with the normal Emacs
undo functionality), but it seems quiet unexpected that deleting a
character in the text field of the buffer with the normal editing
commands can't be undone.
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