Re: emacs kpart

[Mario Lang]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Is there a way to store the contents of the current buffer and then, 
> after 
>     some modification, retrieve only the part that have changed? I know that 
>     there are some functions for retrieving the entire or part of the buffer 
>     (e.g. buffer-string,buffer-substring) but if I don't know which parts 
> have 
>     been modified after some point, my only choice is to retrieve the entire 
>     buffer, which is of course very inneficient.
>
> You could look through the undo list.
> You would need to prevent the undo list from being truncated
> so that you could be sure it gives a complete record.

I know at least that erc explicitly prevents insertions from the filter
function from affecting the undo-list, since that would clobber it up with
modifications the user himself never made.  It might be that
other extention packages do something roughly alike for the same reasons.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario