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- From: dobrien@sybase.com (Dave O'Brien)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Final Copy II data released
- Message-ID: <25461@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 21:29:39 GMT
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- <1992Oct7.210209.28815@tronsbox.xei.com>
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- In article <1992Oct7.210209.28815@tronsbox.xei.com> Dennis Heffernan,
- dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com writes:
- >|When are they going to learn??? What is any productivity program
- without
- >|an UNDO feature???? There are a couple out there already that have
- >|UNLIMITED undoes! What's the deal? I love the new features, but would
- >|still trade them all in for an UNDO! I've mentioned it to Woody Wilson
- >|three times, but I guess it's not that important. (?)
- >
- > I guess it isn't, since in all the time I've been using Final Copy I've
- >never once wished I had an Undo command. (And I've been using it since
- it
- >came out.)
- >
- > Calm down. It's just not a crucial feature.
-
- Wow. I never thought I'd hear this - Undo not important in productivity
- software!
-
- Well, I suppose that if you never got used to it, you wouldn't miss it so
- much, but I would trade LOTS of features for Undo.
-
- Pro Page didn't get Undo until version 2 or 3, and I don't know how many
- times I moved something just a bit too far and couldn't cancel it
- afterward (they had an escape WHILE you were moving it, but that's not
- too useful after you've committed yourself.
-
- The nice thing about Undo, really, is being able to try something out,
- decide that you don't like it, and revert with one keypress/command.
-
- I can understand *some* people not wanting it much, but for the publisher
- of a word processor to take this position is inexplicable to me. Heck,
- one-step Undo isn't even hard to code for. Oh well, if people really *do*
- want Undo, I suppose they'll make themselves known to the developers...
-