retaining a selection after undo

[Anonymous]

This has been a bother since I started working with AutoCad. I spend time selecting objeces only to find the need to undo a command at which time I lose the objects I slected. Is there a way to retain objects that have been selected after an undo has been carried out.

[nestly2]

At the Command line, type SELECT  <enter>  then P (for Previous) then <enter> again.

[Anonymous]

To my chagrin it does not work as expected. Is there a setting I'm missing?

[nestly2]

I may have lead you astray. What I posted works in AutoCAD2011 and newer, but the selection is not remembered after Undo in 2005.  I don't have any versions in between to test when the behavior changed.

[Anonymous]

It's very inefficient to have to reselect after undoing. Hard to believe there's no way around it. 

[nestly2]

Perhaps instead of UNDO, just re-issue the command then press "P" when prompted to select objects, and modify the objects in the manner you had originally intended.   I did search a little, but didn't find which version  they changed it to remember the selection even though an UNDO.

[Anonymous]

Undo is a very useful command, but it is appalling that Autodesk does not allow users to retain their selection following an undo as recently as version 2009. I remember using Autocad years ago, and this problem existed at that time as well.

[3wood]

I guess with a lisp routine, the selection set can be written out as a temporary file, with all entities' handles in it. Then when recall after UNDO, it can read the entities' handles back to the drawing and select them again.

[pendean]

... Or upgrade.