On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 11:58 AM Thomas Passin wrote:

Say you (Edward, I imagine) move a subtree that contains Terry's nodes to
> the Attic.  If you forget and just do a cut-and-paste, suddenly they become
> your nodes.  Or maybe just the head of the subtree becomes your node,  I
> don't even know.
>
> Furthermore, I have been developing plugins and enhancing Leo internals
> for some time and I have *never* once thought that by creating a node I was
> claiming to be its creator.  Or that by moving a node by cut-and-paste I
> was changing its creator.  Why would I, and how would I have known about
> that subtlety?  After all, node ids are ordinarily invisible to the creator
> and user.
>

This has been a useful discussion. I never realized the side effects of
cut-node followed by copy-node.

Let's just make the normal behavior agree with normal expectations.
>

I think #3429 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/3429> will
do that in many cases.

Edward

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