[REQUEST] Creating undo groups in Normal mode

[ftonneau]

[REQUEST] Creating undo groups in Normal mode

[Screwtapello]

If you put commands inside an execute-commands block, that effectively puts them in an undo group together.

This command produces two operations that can be undone individually:

kak -n -e 'exec x~; exec jx~'

This command produces one operation that can only be undone as a unit:

kak -n -e 'eval %{ exec x~; exec jx~; }'

This command also produces one operation that can only be undone as a unit:

kak -n -e 'exec x~jx~'

[ftonneau]

Great info! I just created a post in the users forum, in the Recipes & Guides category, as I thought the info you provided could be useful to people who do not necessarily check on GitHub.

[ftonneau]

Let me add that the problem can be partly assuaged by pasting text into a scratch buffer, doing the changes in the scratch buffer, and pasting the modified content back into the original buffer (the scratch buffer is then deleted). This is better, but still not as good as begin-undo-group and end-undo-group commands would allow.