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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

or just make it so it always works but is either a command line
option/env variable or manually editing the configuration file

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Urgh, do we really need to keep features that a developer may need at some
> point in the future in the UI? This is something that one person may need once
> sometime next year. Can't we make this a #define or something instead?
>
> We really shouldn't be cluttering everyone's UI with developer-only options.
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:54:05PM +0200, jp charras wrote:
>> Le 10/05/2016 à 20:41, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>> > Back in August (git:aaadb40), I made the undo history infinite in pcbnew,
>> > eeschema, modedit, and libedit. Wayne wanted this to remain an option, in case
>> > of issues with the memory consumption of the undo stack. Currently, if you set
>> > "Maximum undo items" to zero, you get infinite history. I also made it default
>> > to unlimited.
>> >
>> > In the seven months since I did that, has anybody ever needed to limit that?
>> > I've found the memory consumption caused by it to be quite minimal even on very
>> > long layout sessions (I do not often shut my computer down other than to
>> > install kernel updates and do not generally close things I'm working on, so
>> > pcbnew can remain open for weeks at a time...).
>> >
>> > And if nobody has needed to change the limit, can I remove it to reduce options
>> > clutter?
>> >
>>
>> Please, do not remove it.
>> For most of users, this option is not useful.
>>
>> However, developers need to be able to set the value (usually at a low value like 2 or 3) when the
>> undo/redo has an issue (usually related to object deletion), even in release mode.
>> Sometimes a crash can happen when objects in undo/redo list are deleted, if there is a bug in these
>> functions.
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>
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