# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1147458170 0 # Node ID 2fe766ffb2c036fcc3d6aa5972b623cfd1dd0513 # Parent 92ebe8a9117c840108296112149049920bbfab7d (Undo): Document that undo is turned off in buffers whose names begin with a space. diff -r 92ebe8a9117c -r 2fe766ffb2c0 lispref/text.texi --- a/lispref/text.texi Fri May 12 17:56:34 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/text.texi Fri May 12 18:22:50 2006 +0000 @@ -1202,7 +1202,9 @@ Most buffers have an @dfn{undo list}, which records all changes made to the buffer's text so that they can be undone. (The buffers that don't have one are usually special-purpose buffers for which Emacs -assumes that undoing is not useful.) All the primitives that modify the +assumes that undoing is not useful. In particular, any buffer whose +name begins with a space has its undo recording off by default, +see @ref{Buffer Names}.) All the primitives that modify the text in the buffer automatically add elements to the front of the undo list, which is in the variable @code{buffer-undo-list}.