Re: Undo manipulation

[Kevin Rodgers]

Bill Wohler wrote:

> I don't want to add some manipulation to buffer-undo-list. For
> example, let's say I have:
>
>   1. blah
>   2. blah
>   xyz
>   3. blah
>
> and I want an undo to hit #3, then #2 and then #1, leaving xyz alone.
> Are there normal ways to do this? Like inserting markers in
> buffer-undo-list to later remove desired elements.
>
> It just occurred to me that I could save buffer-undo-list into a
> temporory variable, do my thing, and then restore the variable.


Exactly:

(let ((buffer-undo-list t))
  (insert "xyz\n"))

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Kevin Rodgers