My huge feature request for all software in general that is used to create or edit anything at all:
Contextual undo/redo!
Let me mark a section of the text, select a section of the image/graphic, highlight a selection of the timeline, or whatever else, and press Ctrl+Z to undo whatever I did within that area!
Instead of having to undo everything I've done until I get to that point and then redo everything else again. This would be a game changer!
You can keep your "AI", I just want this.
Thinking how we would do this in inkscape.
Tricky problem. Transaction lists are easier. But perhaps it could be done as an delta on top for changes within the selection.
@forteller Itcs a great idea, but more complicated than it sounds. Say I change text in a paragraph, then go and insert text in the previous paragraph. Then I select a couple of lines inside the paragraph containing the text I changed and try to undo the change. The start position of the change when I made it isn't valid because of the intervening change. How do I determine the correct start position?
@forteller Emacs can do that with text. Vim can probably do it too.
@forteller not sure how this would work if you move sentences around between paragraphs ? or split paragraphs ? or insert a figure or image, which moves the text 1/4 or 1/2 a page ?
@forteller for text editing, #Emacs does exactly this. With a region of text selected, 'undo' is limited to undoing changes in that region!
@plantarum Oh, wow! Really? That's amazing! Maybe I'll have to learn to use that crazy thing… :D
@forteller there's a built-in tutorial that will get you started with general editing in 15 minutes. I recommend starting there and slowly adding new features to your repertoire. You don't need to learn, or even know about, all the features to use it well!
