[Geany] 'Persistent undo'...

[Harold Aling]

Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hello.
> Currently geany keeps the changes when you keep the file open after
> saving it. I think this is enough.
>
> If you really need these kind of feature why don't you try a version
> control system like svn ?
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Philippe.
>   
SVN is very useful in projects, but a bit clumsy with configuration 
files, etc.

Another real-life 'persistant history' example:
When restoring a session in Firefox, all the tabs are restored, 
including their history. Closing a tab in Firefox and undoing that 
action not only reopens the closed tab, but also restores it's 
navigation history...

It seems that there is a reasonable demand for such a feature in other 
programs. Hopefully I'm not alone in wishing for such an extension for 
Geany: "true session save/restore possibility"...

-H-

> Harold Aling a écrit :
>   
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I was thinking that it may be very usefull to have the undo history
>> saved between sessions...
>>
>> For example: I open a file, make a change, save and close it. The change
>> didn't work and I have to undo that change. Unless I saved a previous
>> version, I can't undo that change.
>>
>> -or-
>>
>> I'm really hacking at some files and I must stop to return to it an
>> other day. By closing Geany I'll save all open files to a 'session', but
>> when reopening that 'session' all undo history is gone... I'd like to
>> return to it and continue with the files as if it were a minute ago.
>>
>>
>> I know this will create some overhead and I thus suggest that saving the
>> undo history will only be done for all items in the 'recent documents'
>> and the open tabs. Once a file is purged from the 'recent files' list
>> and isn't opened in a tab, the history gets deleted.
>>
>> A popular multi-track audio recording studio called Ardour has added
>> such a feature to their upcoming release (2.0) and I think it makes a
>> real nice feature...
>>
>>
>> How do guys you think about this?
>>
>>
>> -H-
>>
>>
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