Re: Patches item #1729825 ready to go.

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 04 June 2007 14:54, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Let me toss this idea to Petr... What would you think of instead of removing 
> items from the stack, say the user types
> 
> foo = 35
> plot x*foo
> foo = 25
> plot x*foo
> history
> foo = 20
> plot x*foo
> history
> 
> and the result of the final history might be
> 
>   1 foo = 35
>   2 plot x*foo
>   3 foo = 25
>   6 foo = 20
>   8 history
> 
> For a more condensed appearance?

I don't like it at all.

If I want the history, then I want it to show all the
commands I issued, in the order they were issued.  The condensed
form you show above would not let me determine from the history
command what was the value of 'foo' when I made the most recent
plot.  It's one thing to remove a series of "replot; replot; replot..."
commands, since nothing changes between them.  But your example
is hiding important changes.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt