Re: zle: vi mode: wrong undo handling on fresh lines

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:19:44 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

> On Jan 31,  9:00pm, Jun T. wrote:
> } Subject: Re: zle: vi mode: wrong undo handling on fresh lines
> }
> } $ ls f<tab>
> } $ ls foo         # assume there is a file 'foo'
> } $ ls foo<undo>
> } $ ls f<undo>
> } 
> } now <undo> will remove the entire command line (the original behavior
> } is to remove only 'f').
> 
> Hmm.  I suspect we want the additional patch (32330) to restore the old
> behavior, but emacs itself considers a string of consecutive self-insert
> to be a single undo event (rather than undoing each individual character)
> unless there are intervening motions or deletions, so whether this is a
> significant problem may depend on exactly how many and what kind of undo
> events get merged.

Yes, I'm going to assume both patches are wanted if I don't hear
disagreement.

pws