I think you were wise to combine Actions and History handling in this new discussion because it is most efficient to combine the two in a new History panel.cathodeRay hat geschrieben: ↑Di 07 Feb 2017 11:35 The other thing is the History: I'm not to keen on side-car files - as others have noted it means a lot of file clutter, a lot of losing track of what's what eg when renaming/deleting etc - just the sort of unwieldyness I want to avoid. However, I would like just one thing: the ability to turn whatever is currently in the Undo list into an action, from which I could then cherry pick the bits I want to keep (ideally in a text editor - just go in and delte what is not wanted etc, if not through the Actions panel).
I agree that side-car files are too unwieldy, and I share your frustration with trying to figger out "How the hell did I do that ?" after getting a nice result after mucho trial-and-error.
Replacing the Undo List with a History panel like the one I'm asking for would fulfill all your (and Bruce's, and my) needs, as well as addressing the concerns mentioned by Burkhard.
Also, by keeping the Actions as binary files the performance of running an action would remain lightning fast since there would be no overhead of parsing a text/XML file.