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From: dan%ivy@SUN.COM (Dan Walsh)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: undo problem
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Date: 10 Jul 89 22:18:28 GMT
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More than once I have mistakenly tried to reformat a paragraph in an
nroff document (M-q) only to have emacs reformat the whole document.
When I try to undo this change, I get a message that there is too much
to undo.  This makes me very unhappy.  Ideally I would like to see
enough undo space to be able to undo the effects of a single
keystroke.  Less ideally, I'd like a mode where I would get prompted
about running out of undo space and queried as to whether I really
want to do this.

I suppose this isn't *really* a bug, as it is documented that there is
limited undo space.  However, it has shaken my confidence about emacs,
and I would be willing to pay some space and/or time in emacs to have
this not happen to me again.

					Thanks,
					  Dan Walsh (dan@Sun.COM)