Why, what happened? If there is text you reuse often, consider a Sample Text.
I, for one, would appreciate a «Undo Typing» command… it happens way too often that I accidentally delete a character in a sample string, and it might not always be easy to restore it (e.g., if it’s in a script I can’t read).
The Sample Text is a good idea, I guess.
That is hard, because Glyphs follows a completely different, glyph-based Undo philosophy.
I totally second both requests. Many times I have lost text I had entered by accidentally closing a tab or editing the text.
As a work-around, duplicating the .glyphs file and opening it can sometimes help to restore the lost text.
Another request related to text editing: It would be handy if I could select text by dragging with the mouse, just like in any text-editing scenario. This should not contradict any Glyhps-specific principles, I suppose.
Which has cost me a whole batch of newly made glyphs on more than one occasion. You can’t Redo an Undo that kills glyphs…
Anyway, I’d suggest a separate undo history for typing, with a separate command “Undo Typing”.
What happened was that I accidentally closed a tab I didn’t mean to. I do that all the time in web browsers, and I can re-open multiple recently closed tabs. It is not text I reuse often, it is just the text I thought I was using at that moment that I thought I was done with, but then 5 seconds later I realise there was something else I wanted to do with that tab, and now its gone… and I can’t really remember all the glyphs I had in there, and their carefully arranged sequence… but I know I want them back!!
That is hard, because Glyphs follows a completely different, glyph-based Undo philosophy.
There should be per-glyph undo stream and a per-glyphsFile stream too
I second both requests.
Actually it would be helpful to have an add button or a menu command that would add the text string to the sample text.
There are both undo managers already. But it is confusing. Adding a third level to catch the text changes in the tabs would not help to reduce that complexity.
+1 for undo typing.
“Actually it would be helpful to have an add button or a menu command that would add the text string to the sample text.”
+1 For this
Done.
Add to sample text, or open last closed tab?
Reopen last closed tab.
awesome. thanks georg.
How can I reopen the last closed tab?
Cannot find any menu command in version 1330.
Hold down Alt/Opt when you open the View menu, choose Reopen last closed tab.
thank you!