Request For Comments - Undo/Redo framework

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 10 February 2015 at 14:38, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:26:04PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
>> On 09 February, 2015 - Grace Karanja wrote:
>>
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I've been working on implementing an undo/redo framework. The
>> > attached patches are what I've done so far. I only have undo working
>> > for the deleted dives.
>> >
>> > This is not in anyway fully working, just a view of what I have done so that
>> > you can point me in the right direction
>> >
>>
>> One random thought.
>>
>> Most software use ^z for undo and ^y for re-do. We have already used ^y
>> on Yearly Statistics, so you grabbed ^Z.
>
> Interesting... my first response was to say "no, I don't think the ^y for
> redo is standard", but then I looked around a bit and it turns out that
> it's just that the software I most commonly use undo/redo in (Adobe
> product) is odd and that at least MS Office has indeed established ^y for
> redo.
>
>> Nothing wrong with your decision, just trying to figure out what we
>> should do here.
>>
>> I think its worth more to our uses to try to use ^y for re-do and move
>> Yearly Statistics somewhere else.
>
> I agree
>

there is no standard for redo to speak of. all the adobe products use
ctrl+shift+z, while the microsoft products use ctrl+y.
it's just that ctrl+y is a bit of a finger stretch compared to ctrl+shift+z.

lubomir
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