[pmwiki-users] Re: Unclear which 'restore'-link to press when restoring a page
Neil Herber
nospam at mail.eton.ca
Mon Feb 7 14:59:04 CST 2005
At 2005-02-07 02:37 PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>I'm not in favor of having the "restore" capability be called "edit",
>because that's not the operation an author/editor is looking for.
>Typically they're looking for some term such as "undo", "recover",
>or "restore" that explicitly indicates they're going back to a previous
>version of the page.
Despite my earlier misgivings about it, I would favor "undo" as the verb
because it makes the rest of the phrase less ambiguous, as in:
Undo all edits above this line
The problem with "restore" and "recover" is that they implicitly are
referring to the text below the line. That is, the author is attempting to
recover or restore the original page as it existed beneath the line, prior
to the edits above the line. This leads to awkward phrases such as:
Restore page as it was prior to above edits
Restore page without above edits
Recover page without above edits
But I still think "reverse" is the best choice, as in:
Reverse all edits above this line.
I does not have the same sense of "throwing away" the edits that "undo"
presents.
Neil
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