reinstantiate item to prior position in list when item is returned from Last Recently Used

[Benjamin Foote]

When an item is "resurrected" from "Last Recently Used" it would be nice if it remembered its prior order in the list.

[Joe Reuter]

@bnfinet I like the idea, but I'm unsure what "prior order" even means in this situation, because the list can change after an item is removed from the list (by moving, removing, or adding items).
It could be -

• the same position counted from the top
• before the same item as before
• after the same item as before
• a mixture of the possibilities above

What do you think about this?

[Benjamin Foote]

I'm not sure either. If I think of the use case for consistency, it's familiarity over time for quick marking of done or resurrection from LRU or perhaps convenience while shopping. Perhaps I put flour, cheese, milk in that order because it mimics the shopping aisles and location of the items in the store. But also it's being able to quickly locate bread from either the list (to mark off) or LRU. But regardless of the aisles in the store, the point that I want convenience most is ressurect from a long LRU. m uncertain of what's best. Maybe LRU should just always be alpha numeric sorted. Some of our lists are 15 items but most are 10 (though I think they're gonna grow). Perhaps each item's ordinal is to the combined set of LRU and current items. When an item is moved or created, set it's ordinal in the combined list to the item above +1 or to first if it's moved to the top of the list. And adjust all other item ordinals accordingly. That feels about right to me.

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