undo broken in script editor

Ivers, Doug E Doug_Ivers at lord.com
Mon Nov 3 09:04:38 EST 2003


Multi-level undo would be awesome!

D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Gehlbach [mailto:steve at nexpath.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 1:41 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: undo broken in script editor
> 
> 
> Monte Goulding wrote:
> 
> >>Has the lame (and broken) function of the undo command in the script
> >>editor been reported as a bug?
> >
> > The undo menu just uses the undo command (which you can 
> about read in the
> > docs). It's very limited. Using it twice is the same as 
> redo. It get's reset
> > whenever anything is done via script and seeing as there's 
> heaps of stuff
> > scripted in the script editor field it hardly ever works.
> > 
> 
> Okay, good point, I read the docs, and it does say it undoes 
> "typing", 
> and the Backspace key is typing.  I have a habit of highlighting text 
> and hitting the Backspace key to delete it.  The undo does 
> not work on 
> this key.  However, it does work (sort of) on the Del key, 
> but adds an 
> extra return or linefeed.  This is true on Windows and Linux.
> 
> But I agree everything else seem to work for one level.
> 
> I still say a 21st century editor (particularly where you are 
> trapped in 
> an IDE and can't conveniently use anything else) that does not have 
> multilevel undo, is lame.
> 
> 
> -Steve
> 
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