Re: [gedit-list] limitd undos

[Nick Gravgaard <me nickgravgaard com>]

Yes you're right, I am using gedit 3.4.1.

I'm not exactly sure what happened. I think I was manually merging lots
of code and so had probably been copying and pasting large pieces of
text. I do know that my undo history was very limited - certainly less
than 2000.

If I have the problem again I'll see if I can figure out what I can do
to reproduce it.

Thanks for your help,
Nick



On Sat, Aug 10, 2013, at 13:42, Adam Dingle wrote:
> 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.
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