On 8/18/07, Alain O'Dea alain.odea@gmail.com wrote:
I like this idea a lot. Please implement it (and someone please fix the brutal character-by-character undo).
Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) does a compromise here by storing entries for every file you are editing in something it calls Local History. It lets you diff/merge against the Local History or load the content of any previous entry. You don't get the entire undo/redo history, but you do get major changes that occurred.
I strongly recommend looking at the design used by Eclipse for this.
I second this. I mention it on this list every now and then, when the quarterly undo discussion occurs.
Allan expressed some interest in it once, but I don't know if he is actually considering it in anyway.
Ed