Re: A new user perspective about "Changes for emacs 28"

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08.09.2020 18:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > On 08.09.2020 17:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Once more complex
> > > situation arise, my opinion is that undo-tree is more complex and
> > > harder to grasp than the Emacs undo, so I don't think undo-tree is
> > > better suited to newbies than the default undo.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure undo-tree is better for complex situations thanks to of
> > its visualization interface.
>
> If visualization is the main advantage, we could have visualization
> for the default undo as well.  That's not the complex part, and not
> what differentiates between the 2 undo's.

Having separate bindings shouldn't hurt either, especially in said 
complex situations.

And try to consider how the visualization would look. I think it would 
have to be like a tree (basically, like the one undo-tree paints). Then 
it would probably be logical to have at least two different commands 
which allow traversing the buffer states in both directions along the 
branches of that tree. And presto, we got undo-tree again.

Perhaps I'm lacking in imagination, though.