Feature Requests item #1904182, was opened at 2008-02-28 13:00
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Category: Interface Improvements (example)
Group: Next Release (example)
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: amino acid (aminoacid)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Add "most recent" to all text input fields

Initial Comment:
All text input dialogs should save a history of the most recent entries, and 
allow them to be selected via a pulldown menu. Examples:

1) Synchronize dialog has this option, but it only seems to save URLs -- it 
should also save local directories / paths, to make it easier to migrate 
changes between local repositories

2) The clone dialog -- source path & destination path should save at least 
several recent entries, so you can quickly pick them from a pull-down menu. 
This would make it much easier to clone, if you have a repository you clone 
often then you can save some typing.

A perfect example of this feature in action is on the commit dialog -- it saves 
several recent commit messages that you can pull down from a list.

This feature would make it much easier for people to use the tool and make it 
easier for people migrating from another tool (such as TortoiseSVN).

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Comment By: TK Soh (tksoh)
Date: 2008-03-07 03:40

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I don't really feel that even 600 px will be enough, especially on
Windows. So I am going to keep it for now.

Instead, I pushed a change that ellipsize the long source paths, which
should make it easier to identify the paths. The only potential issue is
that we will now need to widen the dialog to display the paths fully.
Before the change, we just need to slide the hscroll bar to read the full
paths. I like the new dialog better.



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Comment By: amino acid (aminoacid)
Date: 2008-03-06 23:07

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Tk,

That looks *awesome*, I have taken the liberty of copying your work to
enable the same thing for destination. Thanks for your hard work!

Any chance you would make the clone dialog a bit wider (say, 600 pixels)?
Common local paths are quite long and 400px just doesn't quite fit... so
you have to scroll right in the text box to see what the path really is.

e.g. if the path is C:\Documents and
Settings\foo\Desktop\coding\hg\my_repo

then 400 px will only display "C:\Documents and Settings\foo" and you have
to scroll right to see the "my_repo" which is the most important part.

I googled to see if there is a way to make the text box align right, no
such luck... can we make the clone dialog wider or do you think others
would object?

Thanks!

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Comment By: TK Soh (tksoh)
Date: 2008-03-05 01:22

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FYI, the crew version of clone dialog now saves the recently cloned src:

http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/hg/tortoisehg-crew/rev/b4bf54ece7f9

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Comment By: amino acid (aminoacid)
Date: 2008-02-29 22:05

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Tk,

Thanks for the clarification / insight. It would be cool if the history
functionality that is planned for the commit dialog was modular enough to
be easily added to any text field... I have always loved this feature in
TortoiseSVN and hope it makes its way into TortoiseHG.

Thanks,

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Comment By: TK Soh (tksoh)
Date: 2008-02-29 20:16

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Actually the synch dialog doesn't save the history, it simply picks up the
URL from the [paths] sections of hgrc.

But saving the history of recent entries is on the TODO list. At least for
the commit dialog.

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