[chirp_users] Cut and paste issue?

[Rich Messeder]

Do I understand correctly that this feature applies to a few Yaesus, but exists in CHIRP for all radios to accommodate those few? I tried clicking after ctrl-x, and I see that the memory is active again, and this is on a download for a Kenwood F6A. OK as a backup, but not intuitive. It works on ctrl-x, where I can recover by following up with either clicking or by pasting (as long as no other actions overwrite the buffer), but does not work for deletion. I've been in a habit of thinking that cutting is more or less permanent, and I guess that it is here, too, but only after I write to the radio and complete the process. Whether the memory is grey or zeroed, I can always paste over it or edit it, so there is no loss of generality.

~R~ NE1EE

On 2016-05-25 21:45:-0700, Tom Hayward wrote:
>On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Rich Messeder <rich.messeder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But there is a comment below that reference data on the radio that is not accessible. This is puzzling to me. Does that mean that the data exists in the radio, but there is a flag also in the radio that says not to access that memory? Or recall it? Or tune to it? What is the point? Seems to me that if I delete a memory from the radio panel or from CHIRP, it ought to be gone. It's up to me to have a backup file if I want it...
>
>Yes, in a few Yaesu radios, deleted (or "masked") channels are set
>with a flag. I believe the design goal by Yaesu here was to allow the
>opportunity to undo a delete. In addition to supporting this, Chirp
>also has the capability to write zeros over the whole block of memory.
>For these select few radios, Chirp supports both delete mechanisms in
>a two-stage delete (as described). The goal here was to make the Chirp
>support as many of the radios' features as possible, and for the
>experience to be as close to the radios' interface as possible.
>
>When a channel is masked (the first stage of the two-stage delete on
>Yaesu radios), it can be unmasked from the front panel of the radio
>(see the manual) or in Chirp, just click the greyed-out text to
>resurrect it.
>
>Tom KD7LXL