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Re: UNDO and Mathematica - how useless is it?

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• Subject: [mg97931] Re: [mg97898] UNDO and Mathematica - how useless is it?
• From: Filippo Miatto <miatto at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:19:38 -0500 (EST)
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Totally agree!
Another feature that i expected in 7 but it didn't show up was window  
tabs, it would be great to have multiple notepads opened without  
having to minimize/maximize windows all the time...
Hope to see both in 8!
Is there a way to discuss with developers about fatures/bugs?

Filippo


On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Bob F wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Does anyone else think the UNDO menu function is about as useful as
> ice in Antarctica?? I had just copied/pasted a long expression from a
> web site to a notebook I was working on, but the expression had some
> exponents/superscripts that did not come through with the paste so
> what ended up being in the notebook was something like this:
>
> ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((x2 
> *x)2*x)2)2*x)2*x)2*x)2)2)2*x)2*x)2)2*x)2)
> 2*x)2*x)2)2)2*x)2)2*x)2)2)2)2)2)2)2)2)2
>
> so to Mathematica it looked like all the 2's were just multipliers
> instead of exponents. No problem, says I, just highlight this string
> and use the Edit/Find&Replace dialog box to change 2 to ^2, but only
> one at a time was changed with each click of the replace. OK, says I,
> use the "Replace All" and surely that will only apply to the
> highlighted section. WRONG!!!!!! It changed the entire notebook to
> have ^2 instead of every 2 in the entire notebook. OK, says I, just
> click the Edit/Undo and get back to where I was. WRONG -- notebook is
> totally hosed and I loose a few hours worth of work. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
> I should have done a Save before doing the Replace All -- now I know
> for next time.
>
> So, hey Wolfram -- please fix the UNDO. Make it work like every other
> program on the face of the planet, even the entire Solar System, even
> the known and unknown universe!!!!!!!!!! Even one level of UNDO would
> have saved me hours of working, let alone a multiple level UNDO like
> you see in so many other programs.
>
> I would be much happier Mathematica user, if Wolfram would spend time
> in solving problems like this, than coming out with new versions with
> hundred of functions. Please make the next release fix some of the
> major outstanding issues with the current version (and for many years
> as far as I can tell)!!! If you want to add new functionality that's
> great, but give users a modern user interface feature like
> UNDO!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> And as long as you're about it, give the Find dialog box a way to do a
> find/replace on a cell or multiple cells or any highlighted section of
> a notebook. As it stands right now, you have to click the Replace
> button for each and every occurrence of the string you wish to change.
> Maybe a "Replace in this cell" or "Replace in the highlighted section"
> button.
>
> How can something so simple (the UNDO) be so uselessly implemented.
> What is it even good for in the state that it is in??
>
> -Bob (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) ;-(
>

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  • UNDO and Mathematica - how useless is it?
    • From: Bob F <deepyogurt@gmail.com>