changeset 59836:9d3ae9d4372d

(Undo): Update description of `undo-outer-limit'.
author Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu>
date Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:18:45 +0000
parents 942539e5cf4e
children 99a4ebcb02a2
files man/basic.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/basic.texi	Mon Jan 31 23:17:42 2005 +0000
+++ b/man/basic.texi	Mon Jan 31 23:18:45 2005 +0000
@@ -399,13 +399,13 @@
 
   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.
+(normally 3,000,000).  At that point, Emacs discards the undo data and
+warns you about it.  This is the only situation in which you can not
+undo the last command.  If this happens, you can increase the value of
+@code{undo-outer-limit} to make it even less likely to happen in the
+future.  But if you didn't expect the command to create such large
+undo data, then it is probably a bug and you should report it.
+@xref{Bugs,, Reporting Bugs}.
 
   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