Well for starters the projects takes requests for enhancement via the project Bugzilla portal.
Otherwise, here is my take on LibreOffice Undo/Redo support. First I would point out that the undo, as moved into Expert configuration at 5.1, does not default to 100 "characters" but to 100 change actions. In a rather sophisticated algorithm text being entered is handled at word boundaries, unless a a misspelling or grammar rule was broken--those are "undone" character at a time. White space is collapsed and undone as a single action. Application of style is "undone" in the discrete steps it was applied--a word at a time or a paragraph or an entire text selection. So, in point of fact--a default 100 "Undo" action value is actually a reasonable default. Personally I don't believe there is much benefit to increasing defaults beyond that as the assertion of "Undo" and "Redo" is linear Secondly, should a user feel it is really needed, it is trivial to increase the value from Expert configuration: Tools ->Options -> Advanced: Open Expert Configuration and search for "Undo" the stanza needed is in "org.openoffice.Office.Common", edit to open dialog and reset the value. A bit higher perhaps 500, but would more than that provide any useful context for reverting editing? But there is added overhead in increasing the buffer, so I would suggest it is best to keep it small. Third, the Undo/Redo is provided with split button menu listing all change actions as a stack, while Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y are applied sequentially--the split menu allows selection of multiple steps to Undo/Redo to apply as a block. Given that, folks should appreciate there is quite a bit of functionality provided with LibreOffice's Undo/Redo mechanism. Also, it functions pretty consistently across the document modules Is it perfect? No, of course not, but I have to challenge OP as to what additional facet of "Undo/Redo" is missing, or requires improvement? Personally I can envision a mechanism of incremental document saves and linked to the auto-save settings. Where now--we can *only* choose to abandon all changes by quitting the document. With an incremental save capability, if I wanted to back up 10-minutes I'd restore the edit session to that document state. And I would assume it could be extended to be able to split out a new document based on the incremental save--while continuing with current edits. Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/undo-functionality-tp4185003p4185048.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
