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is a undo stack for working/draft changes wanted? #29

Closed samuelstroschein closed 1 week ago

samuelstroschein commented 1 month ago

Context

Lix can't undo (uncommitted) changes.

Research question

Should lix support undoing (uncommitted) changes?

Based on yes or no, the internal implementation of lix changes. Hence, it would be good to know now if lix should support an undo stack.

samuelstroschein commented 2 weeks ago

Gut feeling is yes. Undoing changes and showing the history of "draft" changes seems beneficial as it avoids creating commits if no commit is desired (LIX-125).

NiklasBuchfink commented 2 weeks ago

In all apps where I have a real editing process, users could benefit from an undo + redo feature.
If it is easy to implement, this could be the "one-trick-pony" feature that is driving adoption. This is similar to how Parrot is just used as a language switch for 90% of the users, but it is the reason the other 10% discovered this tool. It would be awesome to have such a feature in Lix. cc @jannes.blobel

samuelstroschein commented 1 week ago

Concluded the question as "yes", and trivial to implement with LIXDK-131.