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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.     )


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