Re: Undo after cut of a big region says: No further undo information

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I put in this feature because Emacs was crashing due to running out of
> memory due to a very large undo list.  However, I am somewhat unhappy
> with the consequence that a single operation may be impossible to
> undo.  I am still not sure what is right to do here.

How can running out of memory make it crash ?

Don't we signal an out of memory error in that case ?  If so, we could
release large undo lists when that actually happens [FWIW, I cannot
remember ever getting a crash from running out of memory].

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk