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Re: Enabling a command forever - too easy

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From: liberte
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
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