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undo by word
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Michael J Downes |
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undo by word |
Date: |
22 Oct 2002 07:23:34 -0700 |
When typing plain text it would be in some sense more natural for undo
to undo a word at a time instead of twenty characters at a time.
Defining SPC to run something other than self-insert-command has the
side effect of putting in an undo boundary, but unfortunately the
results seems to be too many undo boundaries. After defining
(defun space (arg)
"*Insert a space in a way that creates an undo boundary."
(interactive "*p")
(self-insert-command arg))
(global-set-key " " 'space)
and typing some words, one finds that repeated undo steps stop after
each space *and* after each word. (I was shooting for a way to undo a
word together with its preceding space(s) in a single undo step.)
I also tried using after-change-functions, with pretty good results,
but that approach seemed to end up being rather complicated.
Is there anyone else besides me who thinks it might be a good idea to
add an option for word-by-word undo in a future version of Emacs? I
didn't find
any previous discussion on this in Google (searching for
"undo-boundary", "word by word", "wordwise", etc.)
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