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From: jpayne@flam.Eng.Sun.COM (Drummer Boy)
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Subject: Re: How to re-do undo's ...
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Date: 18 Oct 90 23:31:48 GMT
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In article <5806@mace.cc.purdue.edu> xtt@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Michal Jankowski) writes:
>Actually, it is easy to 're-do' unwanted 'un-do'.
>If you decide that you did, say, two 'un-do's too many, just
>type any cursor-movement command (say, ^F or right-arrow)
>and press C-_ twice. It will undo last two changes, which happen
>to be 'un-do's, in effect re-doing them.
>
>  Michal Jankowski


Yeah, but then your edit history becomes full of undos, which are
not useful or helpful things to have lying around in the undo
history.  Pretty soon you can't tell what is going to happen when
you hit UNDO.