Re: Re : Undo in compose window

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels cistron nl>]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:10:27, E. ALLAUD wrote:
> On 2003.06.03 16:24, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
>> The lack of an Undo option in the compose window has been mentioned on the 
>> list (and has bitten me more often than I'd like!).  The attached patch 
>> (against current cvs) is a first cut at such an option (single-
>> level).  It saves a snapshot of the buffer before any of the other menu 
>> items is used, and also when text is deleted using the keyboard (for 
>> instance, when I start typing with a block of text highlighted for copying, 
>> and forget that it'll be replaced!).  The Undo button restores the snapshot.
>> 
>> Restoring the snapshot loses any other changes you've made since it was 
>> taken, which might be a lot of typing (;-(), and there's no Redo option if 
>> you decide that Undo was worse than nothing.  So there's a lot of room for 
>> improvement!
>> 
>> Comments and suggestions welcome, as always.
> 
> Seems really useful for me; moreover I think it is sufficient, balsa is not 
> a text editor, and this functionnality seems advanced enough IMHO.

Is there any way to use a bonobo component as editor in the compose window?
You could then just run your favorite editor in the compose window.

Which in my case would be: http://www.opensky.ca/gnome-vim/  ;)

Mike.