Undo changes in text
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You can undo a configurable number of changes in a text element being edited.
In Ted4/Fred4
To undo simple changes, such as deletions and retyping, on the Edit menu, click Undo Single, or press the CTRL+Z.
To undo complex changes, such as sorting, or other actions based on custom scripts, on the Edit menu, click Undo, or press the SHIFT+CTRL+Z.
On the Main tab of the Ted4 Preferences dialog box, you can configure the number of modifications that can be undone. The factory default is 20. You may want to increase this number. Increasing the number, increases the memory usage. This setting is a personal preference, and it does not affect other users. |
The main difference is in number of steps that are undone at once. The standard undo function (typically assigned on CTRL+Z) undoes at once only the built-in actions, while the changes that are based on custom scripts are undone in as many steps as script did perform (one step on each CTRL+Z keypress). For example, the custom text sorting script while sorts 10 lines of text, performs 20 actions. Thus, 20 keypresses of CTRL+Z are required to restore text as it was before sorting. Undo feature (EditUndoScript), which performs an atomic undo operation until previous executed script state. Thus, in the previously mentioned example, only one keypress on SHIFT+CTRL+Z should suffice to restore text as it was before sorting. |
Have in mind that the undo is sequential: if you deleted the text block A, and then deleted the text block B, when undoing, the software will first recover the text block B and then the text block A. Therefore, undoing is performed, one-by-one, in the opposite order of deleting. There is no way to recover the text block A without recovering first the text block B as well. |
Note
Undo works while you're editing text. If you end and restart editing (close a text element and reopen it), the undos are all gone.
See also
In the Articles Editor on User Browser
Press CTRL+Z or click the undo icon.