Saturday, February 23, 2008

How not to implement Undo

Lotus Notes 7 has an undo feature.  I think it would be better off without one.  This train wreck of a feature does not have a redo option, and is unpredictable in terms of how much it is going to undo.

So, here I am typing away and I mistype a few characters, so I hit Ctrl-Z expecting a behavior like every other application I use.  Surprise, Lotus Notes decides to remove an entire paragraph.   I groan, and try to undo the undo (redo).  Ack, it can't do that!