[Adium-devl] Push/Pop (was Re: New wikipage needs input from everyone)

[Eric Richie]

On 9/16/07 2:52 PM, "Chris Forsythe" <chris at adiumx.com> wrote:

> It's a buffer system, unique to Adium. We just don't advertise it
> very well (we should).
> 
> Say you are typing all lyrics to a song by Genesis to someone so that
> they can guess the lyrics. All of the sudden they ask a stupid
> question like "who is genesis?". OMG! I must answer this, AT ONCE!
> But then, I'd have to copy my entire Genesis lyrics out to text edit,
> and then type the answer, and then copy back from text edit.
> 

Isn't this exactly the same thing I currently do with cmd-a, cmd-x, type
answer, hit return, cmd-v, and then continue typing the previous thing?

I'm going to assume that the terms "push" and "pop" are derived from the act
of adding something to or retrieving from a stack.  I dunno, maybe I'm just
set in my ways but this doesn't seem all that useful based on just this.
I'm not sure why I'd need a stack of input pre-queued for later recall.
Especially if it truly is a stack and you can only access the most recently
added (top) element.  It just sounds like a very limited multi-item
clipboard.  Maybe I'm missing something?

-Eric

P.S. I'm sorry if I sound overly cynical about a feature that was so
"beloved?"...