Re: [gedit-list] limitd undos

[Adam Dingle <adam medovina org>]

This is all slightly complicated by the fact that there are currently two gsettings keys that reference the undo limit:

- undo-actions-limit (defaults to 25)

- max-undo-actions (defaults to 2000)

undo-actions-limit is no longer used in the code and is deprecated and should be removed (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689407).  Note that in Nick's original email he said he was using Ubuntu 12.04, which has gedit 3.4.1 (which is a couple of years old now).  In the gedit 3.4.1 sources undo-actions-limit was already deprecated, but was still used in one place in the code:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/gedit/gedit-settings.c?id=3.4.1#n302

According to that code, undo-actions-limit would take effect if it ever changed.  I'm not sure whether that change signal might even fire on startup (and I can't easily test that since I can't build gedit 3.4 since I'm running a much newer version of GNOME). If it would, that might explain the behavior Nick was seeing.

In any case, it seems clear that the undo limit in the current gedit defaults to 2000.  Seems reasonable to me.

adam

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:

50 definitely sounds like a very low limit... as Nacho showed in the other mail, the default is 2000. Maybe you inherited this setting from a really old gedit installation?

Paolo

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Nick Gravgaard <me nickgravgaard com> wrote:

Sorry Andy it wasn't meant to be bitchy.

I was just annoyed when I found Ctrl-Z didn't work 50 times into a
coding session. I just want to do stuff.

For why I got involved in the gedit source some time ago, see
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/

Nick


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013, at 1:22, Andy Griggs wrote:
> I use gedit and it is very configurable and quite underrated.  There are
> other editors available that might suit your needs better - but most will
> have a limit of this sort by default.  Posting your feature request in
> such
> a bitchy way is off-putting at best.  If you have "hacked on this
> software", then make the change yourself and submit a patch.
>
> You might want to read up on some guides about mailing list etiquette.  I
> would be surprised if mine was the only comment related to RTFM.
>
> The overall themes in this guide should be fairly simple to follow and
> are
> recommended.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Nick Gravgaard <me nickgravgaard com>

> wrote:
>
> > I want the software I use in my job every day to keep working.
> >
> > I have hacked on this software in the past and I hope that I can
> > continue to use it every day without it getting worse.
> >
> > Is that wrong?
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013, at 0:09, Andy Griggs wrote:
> > > How abot RTFM and change it on your own.  Problem solved.
> > >
> > > http://www.openoffice.org/xml/xmerge/downloads/gedit
> > >  On Aug 9, 2013 6:49 PM, "Nick Gravgaard" <me nickgravgaard com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was surprised to find that while using Ubuntu LTS 12.04 I was using
> > an
> > > > instance of gedit that seemed to have a very small undo limit. I don't
> > > > understand why anyone would ever limit this to such a small amount
> > > > unless they were working on a machine from <20 years ago
> > > >
> > > > Could someone please remove this limit (and the setting)? Modern
> > > > machines have enough memory. The current setting will only annoy people
> > > > in the middle of their work.
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > gedit-list mailing list
> > > > gedit-list gnome org
> > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gedit-list
> > > >
> >
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