Re: Moving Forwards & Backwards

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, David Johnston wrote:
> Hi,
> A couple of days ago my wife found dia in the depths of my linux box. It 
> seemed just fine except for the lack of some object manipulation options.
> 
> So in an idle moment I have added a 'Move Forwards' and 'Move Backwards'
> feature against the 0.9 sources. If it isn't obvious, they move and
> object forward or backwards one step, rather than all the way to the
> front or back.

I'm sorry to say that you've come too late.  This feature is already
present in the CVS sources.  I'd like to see how you handle moving forwards
or backwards when multiple objects are selected, we had quite a discussion
about that.

> What is the preferred format for such contributions to be presented in?

There's an entry about that in the FAQ, briefly it should be a unidiff
against the CVS.

-Lars

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