Re: Suggested changes to Delphi editor

Here's two more:

4/ Must undo twice after a paste operation

Select some text, paste it, think for a moment and then say "ooops" and hit Ctrl+Z.

In Delphi nothing (visible) happens. You have to hit Ctrl+Z twice. In every other editor, hitting Ctrl+Z once undoes the paste operation.

HOWEVER, if you are really fast and hit Ctrl+Z before the squiggly red line appears under it, the text is deleted. So the background parser is interfering with the Undo function.

I propose that Undo undoes my last editing change and is not influenced by the parser.

Again, a minor but irritating niggle.


5/ Undo backtracks through cursor clicks (related to 4/)

Click in a few places around your code, and then hit Ctrl+Z a few times. The Undo function undoes the cursor moves, so the insertion point moves around the places you clicked. There is a place for this "backtrack" function, but it is quite separate from an "undo" function.

In other editors, the "undo" function restricts itself to actual changes to the text.

I propose that Undo undoes my last editing change and ignores cursor clicks. Navigating backwards through cursor clicks should be implemented as a separate "backtrack" function, with its own shortcut.



Steve T

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