Advanced settings history

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Thy Grand Voidinesss
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Advanced settings history

Post by Thy Grand Voidinesss »

Under the

Tools > Option > Advanced > Show settings containing >

users can search for and the modify hidden advanced settings. This box uses a handy instant filtering approach and has also invaluable Show only modified setting check-box - but unfortunately lacks a proper history feature

Right now users can only go back to a previous setting by pressing CTRL + Z keyboard shortcut - which [when presses repeatedly turns the box [probably unintentionally] into a switch between 2 most recent ones. I often find myself changing more than 2 settings and then right away checking out how they change behavior and / or look of Everything without closing of the Options window [because it would be counter-productive to constantly re-open in]. In a mater of fact that ability to be able to not only apply changes but also to access other parts of program without closing of its window with options / settings is something that attributes to greatness of this piece of software

So please implement some sort of history for that field. It could have a form of typical drop-down menu unfolding itself alike to that of history of the Search Edit field. This new history feature could have its own Advanced settings of

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advanced_settings_history   [true / false]
advanced_settings_history_rows_number   [1-X]
advanced_settings_history_clear_after_closing_of_Options_window   [true / false]
advanced_settings_history_clear_current_expression_after_closing_of_Options_window   [true / false]
advanced_settings_history_transparency   [0-256]
I made the above names long and with addition of range of values to explain what are they are suppose to do