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Emacs 25: "Undo" overdoes things.

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From: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 23785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#23785: Emacs 25: 'Undo' overdoes things.
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:29:47 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  acm <at> muc.de,  23785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:03:35 +0100
>> 
>> My suggestion: this patch goes to Emacs-25. And the previous patch
>> (which automatically adds an undo boundary to current-buffer regardless
>> of changes), goes to master.
>
> So can you please show the "previous" patch?  There were too many of
> them.


This one, to master.

>From 2ab1f314ad6fe0e68420cc510445495467d82b8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:34:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix missing undo-boundary after revert-buffer

* lisp/simple.el (undo-auto--boundaries): Ensure an undo-boundary after
  every command whether it (apparently) changes the buffer or not.

Addresses Bug#23785
---
 lisp/simple.el | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index b66827d..3110430 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -2875,6 +2875,10 @@ undo-auto--boundaries
   "Check recently changed buffers and add a boundary if necessary.
 REASON describes the reason that the boundary is being added; see
 `undo-last-boundary' for more information."
+  ;; (Bug #23785) All commands should ensure that there is an undo
+  ;; boundary whether they have changed the current buffer or not.
+  (when (eq cause 'command)
+    (add-to-list 'undo-auto--undoably-changed-buffers (current-buffer)))
   (dolist (b undo-auto--undoably-changed-buffers)
           (when (buffer-live-p b)
             (with-current-buffer b
-- 
2.8.4

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