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Re: Turning off undo-past-save warning?


> On 2006 Jul 09, at 22:08, ccsccs7 wrote:
> Mark Wagner wrote:
Every app I use on a regular basis lets me undo back all the way to
when I opened the file, or as close to it as the undo stack can
manage.  Every app I use on a regular basis, with the exception of
Xcode, doesn't fuss about undoing past a save.

I'm sorry, you are correct. (Bad OS 9 memories, perhaps?) To the OP, I've now changed my opinion on this undo past last save business. I think it's fine when you've made numerous changes since your last save, but if you've just saved, I do find it annoying to get that box after knowing I've just saved.

Looking at BBEdit/TextWrangler functions, the little black dot that appears in the close box seems to be good enough there.

Cecelia

Fully "journaled" apps keep the undo/redo stack in persistent store, so the limit is disk, not RAM, space. You can do repeated undoes, or just open a file from any available "check-point", i.e. a past explicit save, and then apply incremental redoes from that point forward. Such apps have been around since at least the late 1970s.

It still should give a visual that you've made changes since the last save of the document, even if the changes/transactions since that point have been saved. It's also reasonable to have an indicator that you've backed up past the most recent save.

It sure beats smacking up against a save barrier that you need to undo beyond... like the one I just hit a few minutes ago in another app.
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