<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><pre>It's hard to tell what's going on as long as we can not reproduce the problem (deterministically).
</pre></blockquote><br>ok apparently ^R doesn't work quite the same in Fundamental mode. this was my clue:<br><br><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><font size="1">CRM Buffer Size Mode File<br>
. .e 2933 Fundamental /tmp/.e<br> .emacs 2933 Emacs-Lisp /tmp/.emacs<br></font></span></span></span><br>so, i expect this will help:<br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">(setq-default major-mode 'text-mode)</span></font></span></span><br>
<br></div><div>it does seem evil definitions are active in Fundamental mode, but perhaps undo-tree isn't?<br></div></div></div>