Re: Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default)

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Oct 15 2018, Joost Kremers wrote:
> In short, undo-tree gives Emacs the common undo/redo system, but 
> with an Emacs
> twist: instead of a single, linear, history of changes, in which 
> previously
> "undone" states are lost when you edit the text in any way, are 
> not lost but
__________________________________________________such states^

> stored as separate branches. So the history of changes is not a 
> single, linear
> line, it's a tree. One path in this tree is current, meaning 
> undo/redo will 

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