[pmwiki-users] Unclear which 'restore'-link to press when restoring a page

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:02:45PM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:47 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> >Really we aren't restoring the differences, we're restoring the version
> >of the page that exists between sets of changes.  Perhaps just changing
> >the restore link text to "Undo all above edits" is all that we
> >need.
> 
> Many word processors use 'Revert' to mean 'Undo all' I think.
> 
> Perhaps 'Revert to older version'. This describes the result achieved, 
> rather than the process for achieving it, which may be clearer.

I think that the confusion lies in authors not knowing exactly
what older version they'll be reverting to.  It needs to be tied somehow
to the fact that it's the version that existed prior to all of the
changes that appear above the link.

Pm