Re: Poll: Undo/Redo in MEditor/Edita
- Posted by Georg Wrede <georg at iki.fi> Jan 30, 2005
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Pete Lomax wrote: > Should undo/redo "get smart", and split an undo immediately following > a "redo" into lines/words? Or should it behave consistently fwd/back? > > Any other considerations I should have? > > Should there be options for this? > If so, how should they be worded? IMHO, the defaults should be "what most other editors do". This makes learning your editor smoother. If someone wants "non-standard" behavior, then he'd probably change it right away in the Options. Personally, I like undoing typing as one chunk, mainly because I seldom type e.g. a screenful of text at one go. Almost invariably there is backspacing, cursor movements and such in between, that break naturally the text chunks that would be undone. Cut and paste I like as single undos. Often I find myself cutting or pasting in the wrong place, and that would then be easy to undo. About "redo char/word/line at a time", I suggest you might consider having separate buttons for the three. I could easily imagine that I'd use them all during a detailed redo. Or even a detailed undo. (Well, buttons, shortcuts, whatever, you get the picture. ) -- Another Euphoric, since Nov. 18, 2004 --