From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard)
Subject: [sup-talk] How hard would a universal undo be?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:25:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd67f63a0909111425q7d04332fvd7e23b48e6dab06a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252685502-sup-8928@zyrg.net>
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Rich Lane<rlane at club.cc.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Excerpts from Nicolas Pouillard's message of Fri Sep 11 05:16:49 -0400 2009:
>> 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?
>
> Hmm, you may be right. I was thinking that changes weren't propagated
> between buffers except on save, but that's wrong because UpdateManager
> is called in the keybinding. In that case, the user sees a mostly*
> linear series of label changes, so it's safe to have a global undo
> stack.
he next question is, what else is needed on this undo stack?
Are labels the only interaction we have? Here is what come to my mind:
* contacts (I more and more think that contacts should not be handled by
sup directly, but that's another topic)
* drafts
--
Nicolas Pouillard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-11 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 17:32 Carl Worth
2009-09-10 14:13 ` William Morgan
2009-09-10 14:35 ` Marc Weber
2009-09-10 22:45 ` Rich Lane
2009-09-11 9:16 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2009-09-11 19:52 ` Rich Lane
2009-09-11 21:25 ` Nicolas Pouillard [this message]
2009-09-13 21:40 ` Rich Lane
2009-09-14 16:29 ` Nicolas Pouillard
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