Request For Comments - Undo/Redo framework

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:56:44PM +0100, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:26:04PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> 
> I'm not so sure that's universal.  It seems like most applications on my
> mac (TextEdit, IntelliJ IDEA, Mail, MacVim, Chrome, Firefox) use shift-^Z
> for redo.  MS Word is an exception with ^Y, though.
> 
> I also checked on an Ubuntu box.  Still shift-^Z for most applications
> (Thunderbird, gEdit, IntelliJ IDEA).  The only exception I could find was
> Libreoffice with ^Y (probably mimicking MS Word).
> 
> For me shift-^Z feels more natural, anyway.

So I guess we should do Ctrl-y on Windows, on Ctrl-Shift-Z on Linux and
Mac. Or both on both.

/D