[TxMt] a thought on chunky undo

Russell E. Owen rowen at cesmail.net
Thu Apr 13 19:30:04 UTC 2006


I know some form of chunky undo (as opposed to the current char-by-char 
undo) is on the to-do list (yaay) and and I had a thought about it:

Might it makes sense to offer both, in an attempt to get the best of 
both worlds? For instance one could type cmd-Z to get chunky undo, then 
cmd-option-Z to get char-by-char. Basically this lets one make big jumps 
to get to approximately the right spot, then inch along to get to the 
precise spot.

An undo history could be even faster to navigate, but that sounds like a 
much more complicated programming problem. I've seen a history in at 
least one CAD program, but never a text editor.

-- Russell




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