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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Yu <yu_icq@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I noticed, that "Undo" doesn't work anymore after the open page has
> changed. Is there some way to preserve undo-information across pages?

That is correct, currently there is no mechanism for that.

> Particularly when moving text between different pages with cut/paste,
> this increases the risk of data loss: If I accidentally overwrite the
> clipboard before placing the cut text in other programs, I just "Undo"
> the cutting, restoring the data. If the same thing happened in zim,
> the data is lost.
>
> While using file versioning reduces this risk, it is significantly
> less convenient for restoring lost cut-text and doesn't save text,
> that hasn't been committed yet.

Sounds like a valid feature request, please put it in the bug tracker.

Thanks,

Jaap