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On Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 1:44:36 PM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote:

> 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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