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Re: two more emacs questions


From: vb
Subject: Re: two more emacs questions
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:06:25 -0800

From: "vb" <vb@vsbe.com>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:41:52 -0800
>
> Doesn't "C-x C-x" re-highlight the block again?
>

it very well might do that, but the question is why highlighting a region is
not a part of the undo sequence - it should be, shouldn't it?

The highlight doesn't change the buffer, therefore it is not undone.
So this is by design, albeit contrary to your expectations.



well, that's the thing - I am a user, not a computer, I don't care if typing keys changes the buffer or not. As a user I expect the undo sequence to exactly follow my actions in the reverse order. I just checked - even MS Word does this (brings back the highlight in the undo stream).

Too bad emacs' designers did not think about it this way - it wouldn't hurt to have this feature even optional if someone finds it objectional.

cheers,
/vb

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