Undo command bugs: Can't hold Ctrl+Z, and Undo shifts view window sometimes

[jeffg28CLY]

Fusion 2704.1.53

- Eagle v9.6.2: You could press and hold Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y to quickly undo or redo a bunch of stuff really quickly. Fusion: You need to either use the mouse and do some clicking (the Undo menu is limited to 30 items), or type undo list and click things there, or press Ctrl and then tap Z or Y one time for every undo/redo action.

- Sometimes when Undo and Redo are used, the view of the PCB shifts slightly. Even if I'm working in the schematic, with the PCB on another monitor, and I use undo/redo in the schematic, the PCB view will sometimes shift a bit.

edit: and Undo often is just very laggy, even for very minor undo actions, sometimes even locking up the entire program for several seconds while the cursor spins...

[Evert_2N3055]

In Fusion 360, you can do this:

1. At the top, look for Undo (↶).
2. Click the small arrow next to Undo.
3. You’ll see a list of recent actions.
4. Scroll down the list.
5. Click the action you want to undo back to. Fusion 360 will undo all the steps after that action at once.
6. If you want to go even further back, open the Undo list again. You can go further back than just the first ~30 visible actions.

[jeffg28CLY]

Yes, I mentioned that in the post. Pressing and holding Ctrl+Z/Y was faster and required zero clicks.  

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @jeffg28CLY ,

I hope you're doing well. I think that was an unintentional feature, we never documented that you hold down Ctrl+Z/Y to undo a bunch of actions. I never used it, it feels like it would be easy to miss where I wanted to stop.

Being honest I don't see this coming back but I'll share it with the developers for review.

Best Regards,

[jeffg28CLY]

Unintentional or not, I think it was like that since at least v4, up to v9.6.2. 

In terms of overshooting from undoing too much too fast, yes that can happen, but all it takes is a few taps of Redo to get where I wanted to go. 

I tended to use this to "rewind" a design visually, rather than wading through Undo List and attempting to find which text command was far-back enough. Holding Ctrl+Z and watching the board rewind made it easy to see what was going on. 
Sometimes I'd use it just to compare a manual routing I was working on versus the previous routing, or quickly compare before/after of component arrangements. 

Now in Fusion, it's much slower and has a lot more lag.

As for the second bullet-point, of the view window, that one is especially odd. v9.6.2: Pressing Undo would cause zero movement of the view window. Fusion: It's sporadic, seemingly random: I'll do Ctrl+Z, and everything in the working area, including the grid and all CAD objects, will sometimes shift a bit. If I'm doing things like fine-tuning component placements, it adds a layer of difficulty to see if things actually got moved properly, or if the viewport shifted a bit. (this is another place I'd use Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y as a quick back-and-forth check) 

I have not found a way of reproducing this though. It seems to happen semi-randomly around 5-10% of the time.
Especially odd that Ctrl+Z for actions in the schematic will randomly cause the PCB's viewport to shift slightly.

[jeffg28CLY]

I updated to 2705.1.11.
Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y now do nothing at all. 😑

The undo history is still there, but those shortcuts do anything at all.

I tried manually creating them as shortcuts, but it says "Reserved. Sorry, this key is reserved by Fusion and cannot be used as a command shortcut."

edit: looks like it's any shortcut that uses Ctrl. (And it's not the keyboard.)

Ctrl+S: Was Save. Now: Nothing.

Ctrl+M: Was Minimize. Now: Nothing. (I had Ctrl+M for Move in Eagle, so I minimize Fusion a whole lot by accident.)

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @jeffg28CLY ,

I'm running Fusion on a Windows machine and my Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y shortcuts are working. Are you on a Mac? If you are then you would use Cmd+Z and Cmd+Y to invoke these shortcuts.

If you are on Windows do you have some other keyboard mapping? Since I can't reproduce your issue I'm really reaching to figure out what's going on.

Best Regards,

[jeffg28CLY]

Windows.

I was able to reproduce the problem on another machine here, after they updated to 2705.1.11. Try turning on Legacy Command Line Focus, and then use the program for a bit, and try Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y.

[jorge_garcia]

Hi  ,

I hope you're doing well. Thank you for telling me about Legacy Command Line focus, this is a setting that is normally not on. It may be contributing to what you are seeing.

I'll ask the QA team to evaluate this.

Best Regards,