# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1104166904 0 # Node ID 13368da050f19a452e9e126390dbf4a970f7ddad # Parent e95aeb1339052409d7781545cbf69ecfb1f7c95b (Moving Point): C-e now runs move-end-of-line. (Undo): Doc undo-outer-limit. diff -r e95aeb133905 -r 13368da050f1 man/basic.texi --- a/man/basic.texi Mon Dec 27 16:58:58 2004 +0000 +++ b/man/basic.texi Mon Dec 27 17:01:44 2004 +0000 @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ @kindex UP @kindex DOWN @findex beginning-of-line -@findex end-of-line +@findex move-end-of-line @findex forward-char @findex backward-char @findex next-line @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ @item C-a Move to the beginning of the line (@code{beginning-of-line}). @item C-e -Move to the end of the line (@code{end-of-line}). +Move to the end of the line (@code{move-end-of-line}). @item C-f Move forward one character (@code{forward-char}). The right-arrow key does the same thing. @@ -380,24 +380,32 @@ @vindex undo-limit @vindex undo-strong-limit +@vindex undo-outer-limit @cindex undo limit When the undo information for a buffer becomes too large, Emacs discards the oldest undo information from time to time (during garbage collection). You can specify how much undo information to keep by -setting two variables: @code{undo-limit} and @code{undo-strong-limit}. -Their values are expressed in units of bytes of space. +setting three variables: @code{undo-limit}, @code{undo-strong-limit}, +and @code{undo-outer-limit}. Their values are expressed in units of +bytes of space. The variable @code{undo-limit} sets a soft limit: Emacs keeps undo -data for enough commands to reach this size, and perhaps exceed it, but -does not keep data for any earlier commands beyond that. Its default -value is 20000. The variable @code{undo-strong-limit} sets a stricter -limit: the command which pushes the size past this amount is itself -forgotten. Its default value is 30000. +data for enough commands to reach this size, and perhaps exceed it, +but does not keep data for any earlier commands beyond that. Its +default value is 20000. The variable @code{undo-strong-limit} sets a +stricter limit: a previous command (not the most recent one) which +pushes the size past this amount is itself forgotten. The default +value of @code{undo-strong-limit} is 30000. - Regardless of the values of those variables, the most recent change is -never discarded, so there is no danger that garbage collection occurring -right after an unintentional large change might prevent you from undoing -it. + Regardless of the values of those variables, the most recent change +is never discarded unless it gets bigger than @code{undo-outer-limit} +(normally 300,000). At that point, Emacs asks whether to discard the +undo information even for the current command. (You also have the +option of quitting.) So there is normally no danger that garbage +collection occurring right after an unintentional large change might +prevent you from undoing it. But if you didn't expect the command +to create such large undo data, you can get rid of it and prevent +Emacs from running out of memory. The reason the @code{undo} command has two keys, @kbd{C-x u} and @kbd{C-_}, set up to run it is that it is worthy of a single-character