Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > I'm attaching a 3-part patch that is one possible solution to this. It > creates an extra slot in the History ring for a scratch buffer (at > h->last). If you are editing inside that buffer, it is preserved when > you scroll up/down through the history. Editing while in other places in > history are *not* preserved with this patch. > > I thought about creating a scratch history array instead, and trying to > preserve all edits in a temporary history array until done. But that > seemed a lot more complexity and work for a smaller usage case. Of > course if other people think that's important I'll be glad to work on > that alternative. > > Another behavior change worth noting with this patch: the position > in history is now reset to the scratch buffer after each input > entry. Before, the position would be stay wherever it was - you didn't > restart at the "bottom" each time.
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