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

[Colin Barrett]

On Sep 16, 2007, at 2:26 PM, David Clark wrote:

> You folks are definitely forgetting the most useful feature, the  
> "swap":
>
> 1) type text
> 2) control-s
> 3) type new text / return
> 4) control-s / return
>
> Control-S is a single keyboard shortcut which swaps the text in the
> input field with the contents holding bin (like the clipboard, but
> not). The same shortcut swaps them back. I use this daily to
> interrupt a longer bit of text, so that I can write a short reply to
> something else.
>
> I actually don't like Control-Up and Control-Down so much, as they're
> the same as Control-S unless you need a LOT of stored lines. I think
> that Control-S is much more elegant, VERY fast, and easier to explain.

This is in fact what the flame war was all about! :) You wanted to  
remove them, and some folks wanted to keep them.

I still don't know why we didn't just integrate history (opt up/down)  
with the pushpop stack (ctrl up/down), but whatever. :)

> Dave (the guy who wrote all these bits)

Can't believe you're still reading this list, dude. We should catch up  
(off-list ;) sometime.

-Colin