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Re: A new FrontEnd

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• Subject: [mg128002] Re: A new FrontEnd
• From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 03:08:28 -0400 (EDT)
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On 07/09/2012 09:56, Bill Rowe wrote:
> On 9/5/12 at 3:07 AM, rodrigomurtax at gmail.com (Murta) wrote:
>
>> 1- More Undo! (1 Undo is a shame)
>
> The key issue here is what a multiple level undo would undo. If
> the thought is simply to be able to undo text typed into the
> front end with no attempt to undo computations or concern
> regarding variable state reflect the result of undoing changes
> to text input, that is one thing. But to have variable state,
> computations etc reflect the undone changes to text input is
> quite something else and probably not possible to do in general.
>

An undo that had a side effect of removing all computations would be of 
use to me. It is normally the text and input cells that matter.

>
> A better debugger might be useful to me.
>
Have you tried my (free) DebugTrace package? It doesn't use the 
Workbench, and it will operate on really badly structured code.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk