From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:16:49 +0200
Subject: [sup-talk] How hard would a universal undo be?
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Excerpts from Rich Lane's message of Fri Sep 11 00:45:20 +0200 2009:
> Excerpts from Carl Worth's message of Wed Sep 09 13:32:30 -0400 2009:
> > Would it be a small change to move the undo keybinding to somewhere
> > more universal?
> 
> No :(
> 
> > As a first cut, I'd be happy if it just undid the changes to the
> > index, even without undoing any interface changes. That is, if my
> > previous command was archive-thread-and-view-next-thread, it would be
> > OK if it just undid the archiving part. Bonus points if it also undoes
> > the view-next part, but I can imagine that being more work.
> 
> I know I sound a bit like a broken record here, but immediate
> label changes will solve this problem. Then, the undo system would just
> need to keep a global stack of (msgid, previous_labels). I'm just hoping
> somebody will volunteer for this - it will be a big patch.

What prevent us from having a global stack of (msgid, previous_labels) in
the actual settings?

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Nicolas Pouillard
http://nicolaspouillard.fr