GNU bug report logs - #810
23.0.60; atomic-change-group narrowing problem

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:05:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 810 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#810: 23.0.60; atomic-change-group narrowing problem
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:43:59 -0400

>> When using atomic-change-group I got the message
>> undo-more: Changes to be undone are outside visible portion of buffer
>> The changes are also not undone. This seems wrong to me.

> The attached patch now also tries to restore any narrowing in force
> before the atomic change.

I'm not sure we should do that.  Currently, narrowing operations are not
saved to the undo-log, so making atomic-change-group save&restore the
narrowing makes it behave differently from the undo.


        Stefan
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