[TxMt] [POLL] Infinite UNDOs / Transparent History management?

[Ed Singleton]

On 8/18/07, Alain O'Dea <alain.odea at 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