Subject: Re: Suggestion
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 17:59:20 CST
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Art Kappler wrote:
> >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > When document is "saved," cannot the last cursor position be recorded as well?
> > >
> > > When closed on purpose, or through a / (another) required machine reboot, the document can be reopened, and be ready for functional operation.
> > >
> > > Art
> >
> > This would actually be easy to implement. We just need to save the current
> > insertion point of the view from the which the document was saved. In the
> > header of the our XML file. This appears to be a
> > nice sexy feature that is easy to implement.
> >
> > Any objections? Does it violate some Church secretary or XML rule?
>
> Just because something is easy to do doesn't mean that it should
> automatically spring into existance. I think that this behavour
> would drive a large number of people batty and is pure bloat code
> (much in the same way that the Change Case dialog and back-end
> is IMHO creeping featurism that leads to bloat ... no offense Dom,
> I know where you are coming from).
OK I stand corrected. I'll stick with bugs and core features from now
on.
Cheers
Martin
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