From: Jim Wilson 
@Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:49:17 -0500
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au



At 04:22 PM 1/22/03 -0800, you wrote:
>If I recall, Brief had some form of heuristic combining of cursor movements
>on the undo list. When a cursor movement was first placed on the list, it
>was placed there exactly (for example, say the cursor moved one character).
>As that entry got "further back" in the list, it was subject
to combining
>with other adjacent cursor movement entries so that the undo list didn't
>grow unnecessarily. This makes some sense, too, because if you undo several
>of the most recent movements, you want them to be very "fine
grained" and
>undo exactly what you just did. However, if you continue to undo, the user
>can't possibly remember that he typed 47 "up arrows" --
instead these would
>have been combined into just one "move 47 lines up" entry, and when you
>undid that entry in the undo list, the cursor would jump back 47 lines with
>one "undo" command.

Personally, I'd rather have the individual movements undone as individual 
movements and not grouped together.

Jim 

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