Hi. I’m new here at the forum as well as to Dorico (I come from the Finale program). It’s frustrating that the undo is everything I do. When you are new to Dorico, you try a lot, and have lots of miss clicks. Can the undo function be changed as it is in Finale? So it only undo when it’s something that has influence on the grafic appearance? Hope you understand what I mean.
Welcome to the forum, tz1. Go to Preferences (Edit menu on Windows, Dorico menu on Mac) > Note Input and Editing > Editing, and untick this option:
Apply and Close.
I’m not sure that it’ll get you all the way to what you want but will hopefully get you a fair bit further.
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For what it’s worth, this frustrated me too at first. But I have found Dorico’s everything-undo feature to be a huge benefit. For example, if I want to select a bunch of individual items at once by CMD-clicking, and I accidentally make a mistake and select an incorrect item, I can undo that missed selection rather than have to restart the whole point and click process.
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Thanks for your answer, but you are right- it doesn’t really make the difference I look for.
I would like that the undo function not take notice of my clicks in menus - but only when it is something to do in the actual notation.
Eg. in “Pages” (word processing by Apple): if you type a word, and the (of some reason) click bold, unbold, italics and so on - and then click undo, it will not go through the silly clicks, but undo the actual typing of the word.
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This design choice (which Dorico has in common with Sibelius) has been brought up and argued at great length here on this forum before.
The conclusion, at least so far, is that undoing selections and other non-edit actions is more useful than not. IMO it is not so difficult to get used to. Also, since those discussions I linked above, Dorico has acquired a proper multiple Undo capability, when you really want to back up to a certain point.
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I have been told previously “follow selection changes on undo and redo” is referring to the screen view following to the selection. I think the verbiage is a little ambiguous since it can be interpreted as an emphasis on “selection changes” being the thing that is undone or redone (follow interpreted as the program adding to the stack); but this is not the case with that. For clarity I think that preference could be something like “scroll to selection undo/redo.”
I would like it if the Devs added the menu option to not add selections to the undo/redo stack. If you undo something, then click a note to “play from selected note,” then decide you preferred what you had before, too bad – there will now be no way to ‘redo’ since that selection you made to play from became the priority and the redo stack is gone.
I was originally on team don’t include every little thing in the undo stack, but after using it for a bit, became a convert. The big benefit, for me at least, is if you have a complex selection and then mess it up with an errant click or keystroke, you can get the selection back with a keystroke.
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