Hey developers! If you're fortunate enough to be doing greenfield development on a new text editing app or component, I have a quick feature request for you!
In all existing text editors and text fields that I'm aware of, if you do the following:
- Key in some text.
- Append another piece of text via a press of Cmd+V (Ctrl+V on Windows) to paste from the clipboard.
- Press Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows) to undo.
What happens is that both the pasted text, and some or all of the keyed-in text, get removed.
What I'd like to have happen is for only the pasted text to be removed. The keyed-in text can be removed upon additional Cmd+Z press(es).
I bump into this problem quite frequently when I Cmd+V to append something to some text I'm in the middle of composing. I see that the wrong thing was on the clipboard and got added to the text, reflexively hit Cmd+Z to try and undo that mistake -- and now I have two problems, because some of the text that I had keyed in got removed along with the incorrect pasted-in value.
It would be super fun to have this no longer be an issue in the text editors of the future. Thanks in advance! 👍
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