• Sometimes you just want to cut-n-paste something from one page to another, but you do not need an edit lock.
• Earlier revs dont allow you to edit, so you can't see the source.
• This would be very handy for restoring old revs.
  • (Like the way some moron has whacked the codev front page.)

-- TWikiGuest - 28 Nov 2000

That would be a useful enhancement. Note that with the 01 Dec 2000 release you can edit a page and then "Cancel" out of edit, removing the edit lock so that other people don't get blocked for an hour.

Fortunately it is very easy to undo a revision of persons who deliberately delete some text (using an undocumented command reserved for TWikiAdminGroup members). Follow up in DevOpinionPoll.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Nov 2000

I've made a small script 'show' which lets you see the source of any revision. The script is based on the 'edit' script but doesn't lock and can handle the rev=1.x param.

Change the following line in the 'view' script.

<         # disable edit of previous revisions
<         $tmpl =~ s/%EDITTOPIC%/Edit/go;
---
>         # allow to show the original text
>         $tmpl =~ s/%EDITTOPIC%/<A href=\"$scriptUrlPath\/show%SCRIPTSUFFIX%\/%WEB%\/%TOPIC%\?rev=1.$rev\"><B>Show<\/B><\/A>/go; 

Then install the 'show' and 'show.tmpl' files. Now you can show the source from older revisions. For me, as a newby to TWiki it is a good tool to look at the formatting someone else had done some revs ago.

-- StefanScherer - 29 Dec 2000