Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Clear packet comment should remove the comment entirely?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Broman wrote:
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> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Morriss
> Sent: den 2 april 2012 16:53
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> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Clear packet comment should remove the comment entirely?
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> Anders Broman wrote:
> > > Stephen Fisher skrev 2012-03-30 17:59:
> > > > Unfortunately, I haven't been following development much lately.  I 
> > > > see that we have a packet comment feature now.  Is there a way to 
> > > > remove a comment entirely?  I envision the clear button in the "Edit 
> > > > or Add Packet Comments" could do this instead of just clearing the 
> > > > text buffer, but I see that functionality would probably have to go 
> > > > down into the new packet list code and further into the frame data's 
> > > > opt_comment variable.
> > > If you press the clear button and then save the file and reload the 
> > > saved file I think the comment should be gone.
> > I'd been thinking about this some too; one of the first few things I wanted to do in playing with it was to Delete the comment (from the file, from the packet).  >I imagine users will want to too; I think leaving an empty comment feels like a workaround (even if it really deletes the comment from the file).
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> > I just didn't (and probably won't soon) have time to do anything about it.
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> Fixed in revision 41895.

What I was (as a user) looking for was a "Delete comment" option 
somewhere in the UI.  Clearing the comment causing the comment to be 
deleted works, but will users expect it?  (Or should they learn to 
expect it?)