Talk:Undo

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Contents 1 History of Undo 2 Discussion on ctrl-z and other ctrl- commands 3 Wikipedia itself 4 Broken link

[edit] History of Undo

Anyone have any idea of when undo was first implemented and how Ctrl-Z became associated with the command?

It comes from the Macintosh, possibly the Lisa. The Edit menu was laid out in a standardized fashion with Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear (Delete) the command key equivalents were assigned to be the bottom left four keys on the keyboard (Z, X, C, V) and the backspace for delete. These keys are nearest to the modifier (command) key used to invoke them and so were presumably chosen to be easily reachable for these very common operations. The X for Cut and the C for Copy also have the benefit of being somewhat mnemonic.58.168.23.95 (talk) 14:26, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on ctrl-z and other ctrl- commands

I needed the redo command and had to research ctrl-y to add it to the undo article. Anyone have a complete list of ctrl-? commands (ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-x, ctrl-y, ctrl-z, etc.) and would be interested in creating a page baised on them? (Sorry, Warren S. Black blackjnk@yahoo.com - haven't taken the time to create an account here, yet. ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.219.143.182 (talk) 07:59, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia itself

Do article edits have an undo function? Can this be explained in this article? BrainyBabe 14:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Reverting article edits is explained at Help:Page history. I would not add this to this article as I would want to avoid mixing namespaces. — Tobias Bergemann 15:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining.BrainyBabe 16:40, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be italic font at the top of the page saying something like "for the wikipedia feature see Wikipedia:Undo? Please reply to MY talk page because this page isn't on my watchlist. TheBlazikenMaster 12:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Broken link

Just a note that the external link to "Gradual Undo" is broken as of 19:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC). If it remains broken for an extended period of time, someone should probably remove it.
-SColombo 19:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)