Re: [ jEdit-users ] Internal version control system & getting rid of Save

[Kristian O. <kri...@he...>]

Reinout van Schouwen <re...@cs...>:
>> A local GUI design/research group is doing research on how to do this
>> in MS Word.
>I think it would be more useful (and probably easier to implement) if this
>were done for an open-source project (OpenOffice, AbiSuite, whatever).

I don't know exactly how big is the role of Word in the research. I
think the main purpose is to find out how to make this work in editors
in general.

>The main problem with this is that you need a lot of disk space to
>remember ALL of the file versions you ever had.

Well, you don't have to remember all versions. Since the purpose of
this feature is not to replace CVS, you can delete some older versions
or something like that. I don't think disk space is a concern. I read
somewhere that the diff format usually takes only twice the space as
the plain format.

-ko