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Article #98653Re: Enabling a command forever - too easy
From: liberte
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 16:37
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 16:37
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Kyle Jones says: > A stray C-w can do more damage than anything else I can > think of, and it does it immediately, and with no questions > asked. In some cases, one doesn't even see the effect of the deletion until sometime later. If you are at the end of the last line of the window and the region to be deleted is after point, you may not even see it happen. This should be fixed by some means other than disabling the command entirely. Emacs 18.57 has unlimited undo, so large regions are not a problem anymore for undo. BTW, one thing more damaging than losing large chunks of your file is losing the whole file. But this is usually a problem with a bad write-file-hook rather than generic emacs. Even worse than losing a file is losing your mail; you can recreate your file but the mail is gone forever. Dan LaLiberte uiucdcs!liberte liberte@cs.uiuc.edu liberte%a.cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,b9f76c79b2a1314,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-04-22 21:25:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unreplyable!garbage From: liberte@A.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: Enabling a command forever - too easy Message-ID: <9104221635.AA24716@a.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Apr 91 16:37:35 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 24 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu