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Safari supports multiple undo levels
Authored by: dzurn on Feb 25, '03 06:03:30PM
If a WEB BROWSER can support undo's then why on G-d's Green Earth doesn't undo work for the Address Book???

I was editing a bunch of imported cards and made a mistake by deleting a selected line instead of inserting. There was NO WAY to get back the original text! And this is immediately after hitting the single wrong character that wiped out the selected text.

I was flabbergasted that Escape didn't work, Cmd-Z didn't work, Cmd-. didn't work, nothing brought it back that I could see. A simple overtype without even moving the the next field.

That's the opposite of usability. Every single edit is permanent and irreversible! Of course, I could just restore the entire database from backup, but that's not a very fine undo level.

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Safari supports multiple undo levels
Authored by: asterizk on Feb 25, '03 08:33:52PM
"I was flabbergasted that Escape didn't work, Cmd-Z didn't work, Cmd-. didn't work, nothing brought it back that I could see. A simple overtype without even moving the the next field. "

actually, speaking of odd undo behaviour/lack thereof, while editing bookmarks in Safari (v60), i accidentally overtyped one of the names of the bookmarks, and i too couldn't use escape or undo*!

that is, i couldn't use undo until i accepted the faulty text by pressing return. then undo restored the previous name. i think this is a change from how undos used to be handled.


* actually, i could select undo/redo, but it was undo/redo'ing changes that occured before i had obtained an insertion point in the bookmark name and had overtyped the name.

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Safari supports multiple undo levels
Authored by: ParadisePete on Feb 26, '03 04:48:05AM
why on G-d's Green Earth doesn't undo work for the Address Book?

Address Book does have a hidden undo feature! Granted it could be simpler to get at, but it's there. For example, suppose I just accidentally deleted the word "joke." I can invoke the undo by positioning the cursor where the beginning of the word had been, then carefully pressing these keys: j, o, k, and finally the e key. (no modifiers, or it won't come out the same.) That's it! Clumsy, but it works. There's even a multiple undo, but I haven't tried it because my memory's not that good.

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Safari supports multiple undo levels
Authored by: dzurn on Feb 26, '03 09:31:08AM
Thanks! What a relief, and here I thought it was Address Book's fault! ;)

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