GNU bug report logs - #60467
30.0.50; primitive-undo: Changes to be undone by function different from announced

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Message #77 received at 60467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 60467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de, yantar92 <at> posteo.net,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#60467: 30.0.50; primitive-undo: Changes to be undone by
 function different from announced
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:39:40 +0000

>>> For the loop currently in `subr.el` I think the (cdr ptr) is OK 
>>> because we use the `setcdr` to truncate the list, so that last cons 
>>> (whose `cdr` may be nil) will be in the list included in the (apply 
>>> ....) entry.
>>
>> Indeed, now I see it, and I think (without being 100% sure) that it's 
>> OK. It's yet another obscure point of the original code, though.
>
> I hope all these revelations will find their way into comments to this 
> tricky code.
>

Well, I hope this tricky code will be replaced by the non-tricky code I 
proposed, in which none of these obscurities exist... ;-)

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