Today I got an email from the GNU Emacs bug tracking system notifying me that a bug I filed in 2008, which involves _random, complete unrecoverable loss of all undo history_, had been addressed. 13 years later, they've resolved it as "won't fix": https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=530 …
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Replying to @cmuratori
Their investigation: > I definitely think that with the enlarged undo-limit we should leave this obscure situation alone. It isn't worth making such significant low-level changes due to such obscure problems, which are arguably cockpit errors. A big undo queue is obscure...
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Replying to @Kableado
And remember that this is text. The entire history of the typical source file for all of eternity would be a few gigabytes of data for even the most pathological case.
3:52 PM - 21 Oct 2021
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