I do not know if this has been mentioned before, but the undo/redo functionality needs improvements. What bothers me is that the undo functionality will "undo" stuff character-by-character, and not by block. I want block undos. Ideally, I would like to have more of a VIM-like undo functionality.
You may wonder what would be defined as a "block undo"? One definition would be: any time when I type in text (or remote text with the backspace/delete) would be one block. When I move the mouse, or use the arrow keys, or use PGUP,PGDOWN, etc. the undo block would end.
Nick
On 7/10-2004, at 18:02, Nick Hristov wrote:
I do not know if this has been mentioned before, but the undo/redo functionality needs improvements. What bothers me is that the undo functionality will "undo" stuff character-by-character, and not by block.
Ok.. but "needs improvement" is then a subjective feeling I suppose. I don't think it "needs improvement" by that definition. A possibility for setting it to block undo wouldn't be bad though.
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:02:45AM -0500, Nick Hristov wrote:
I do not know if this has been mentioned before, but the undo/redo functionality needs improvements. What bothers me is that the undo functionality will "undo" stuff character-by-character, and not by block. I want block undos. Ideally, I would like to have more of a VIM-like undo functionality.
I don't think I put this on my list that I sent out but I second it wholeheartedly. One character at a time is _very_ off-putting. I like vim style as well.
-Scott
On Oct 7, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Nick Hristov wrote:
I do not know if this has been mentioned before, but the undo/redo functionality needs improvements. What bothers me is that the undo functionality will "undo" stuff character-by-character, and not by block. I want block undos. Ideally, I would like to have more of a VIM-like undo functionality.
You may wonder what would be defined as a "block undo"? One definition would be: any time when I type in text (or remote text with the backspace/delete) would be one block. When I move the mouse, or use the arrow keys, or use PGUP,PGDOWN, etc. the undo block would end.
I'd prefer block as opposed to character as well
I do not know if this has been mentioned before, but the undo/redo functionality needs improvements. What bothers me is that the undo functionality will "undo" stuff character-by-character, and not by block. I want block undos. Ideally, I would like to have more of a VIM-like undo functionality.
I'd prefer block as opposed to character as well
I'm curious if there is any practical reason why having character-by-character Undo is actually useful. After all, I can just hit the Backspace key, right?
It's only when the one character replaces a selection that Backspace doesn't work at *least* as well as a character-by-character Undo. But a character-replacing-selection would be considered a block, and so block Undo would work fine.
Michael
On 8. Oct 2004, at 7:03, Michael A. Alderete wrote:
I'm curious if there is any practical reason why having character-by-character Undo is actually useful.
You can get to every intermediate editing step. I just had a case in Mail where I wanted to go back to an intermediate editing step, but that wasn't possible, and that state contained text which wasn't present in either ends of the block.
Not sure how it happened though.
But there'll be an option for block-undo in the future, knowing how frustrated I am with block-undo, I figure fans of this mode would be likewise frustrated by char-by-char undo.
Kind regards Allan
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