[Geany] 'Persistent undo'...

[Harold Aling]

Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 04/27/2007 11:19:36 AM, Harold Aling wrote:
>> 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"...
>>
> I think it's an interesting idea, but I don't think it belongs in the 
> core of Geany. Saving the history to a session file might require some 
> changes to Scintilla, but [in theory] there could be a plugin that 
> keeps documents open when the tabs are closed, and reattaches them 
> when reopening the matching file (as long as Geany isn't closed). It 
> would bulk up the memory usage though.
Saving history to disk in a sort of cache file will reduce memory usage. 
And this feature will be enabled/disabled in Geany's option of course...

If Geany, X or Windows crashes, you would still have all documents 
including their undo history...

-H-
>
> Regards,
> Nick
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