Re: Undo discard prompt (was: [T. V. Raman] read-only modes should be using buffer-disable-undo?)

[T. V. Raman]

Know about buffer-disable-undo - however life isn't as simple as just
calling that.

For instance, I experimented with it in shell-mode before suggesting
the robust macro solution; if you simply call buffer-disable-undo in
shell mode, things throw an error of the type "wrong-type argument
listp: t"
>>>>> "Luc" == Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

    Luc> T. V. Raman wrote: Also, it might be useful to create a
    Luc> robust with-buffer-undo-disabled macro that authors can wrap
    Luc> around their code at points where they dont care about undo.

    Luc> If you want to get rid of undo completely, there is
    Luc> `buffer-disable-undo'.  If you want to disable it
    Luc> temporarily, there is:

    Luc> (let ((buffer-undo-list t)) ...)

    Luc> Also, the correct solution to the problem causing the prompt
    Luc> is not always to disable undo, completely or temporarily.  We
    Luc> have seen actual examples where the problem was caused by
    Luc> repeatedly appending undo info to the same old undo entry,
    Luc> whereas the correct solution was either to delete the old
    Luc> entry or put in an undo boundary.

    Luc> Sincerely,

    Luc> Luc.

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