Feature: save and restore edit point

[quozl]

At the moment, the edit point is always set to the start of document.

It is common for word processor programs to open a document and position the edit point to the most recent edit point. We might do the same.

• how common is this? Survey existing word processor programs and assess,
• gather user experience opinions,
• save the edit point with the document, restore on resume, yet continue to accept documents that do not have the saved edit point.

[nswarup14]

@quozl
I looked through all the functions of Abi.Widget from here, but did not find any methods suitable to store the last edit position.
However, would it be a good feature to store the last edited page number in the document and restore the same page on opening the activity again?

Thanks!

[quozl]

Thanks, but no. Save and restore edit point position to the exact letter, not the page,

• you're jumping ahead, there are other development tasks in this issue to be done first,
• there are hundreds of AbiWord functions available behind the the invoke and invoke_ex methods; search the source code of the Write activity for those that are used now, and read the source code of AbiWord to see the functions we are not using yet,
• when collaborating, the edit position of the other user is shown (using a caret cursor), so it should be possible to obtain it by some means; AbiCollab_Import.cpp mentions a data type PT_DocPosition, and functions getEndOfDoc and getPos.

[nswarup14]

@quozl
Thanks
I shall look into the methods you've mentioned above. I wasn't aware of invoke and invoke_ex methods of AbiWidget before