kact...@gnu.org skribis:
> From: Dmitry Bogatov <kact...@gnu.org>
>
> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-undo-tree): New variable.
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> + (synopsis "Treat undo history as a tree")
> + (description "Emacs has a powerful undo system. Unlike the standard
> +undo/redo system in most software, it allows you to recover *any* past
> +state of a buffer (whereas the standard undo/redo system can lose past
> +states as soon as you redo). However, this power comes at a price: many
> +people find Emacs' undo system confusing and difficult to use, spawning
> +a number of packages that replace it with the less powerful but more
> +intuitive undo/redo system.
> +
> +Both the loss of data with standard undo/redo, and the confusion of
> +Emacs' undo, stem from trying to treat undo history as a linear sequence
> +of changes. It's not. The @code{undo-tree-mode} provided by this
> +package replaces Emacs' undo system with a system that treats undo
> +history as what it is: a branching tree of changes. This simple idea
> +allows the more intuitive behaviour of the standard undo/redo system to
> +be combined with the power of never losing any history. An added side
> +bonus is that undo history can in some cases be stored more efficiently,
> +allowing more changes to accumulate before Emacs starts discarding
> +history.")
Could you strip the description so that it’s at most 8 lines?
Otherwise LGTM.
Thanks, and sorry for the delay!
Ludo’.
