In the Text and Font dialog, Ctrl+Z (Undo) destroys text

[Bug Importer]

Problem:

When typing text directly into the "Text and Font"
dialog (Shift+Ctrl+T, Text tab), pressing the Ctrl+Z
key or Edit menu > Undo, removes the text, with no
possiblity of recovery. The Redo action (Shift+Ctrl+Z)
does not recover the text. Even if Redo did recover
the text, it would be easy to lose the text if more
text were typed after the undo.

Workaround:

Enter text into a separate text editing application,
then copy and paste the text in. This avoids
accidental loss of text.

Proposed Solutions:

Disable Undo while the "Text and Font" dialog (Text tab
) text entry dialog, has keyboard focus. Or, if Undo
is pressed, alert the user of the loss of data with a
Yes/No dialog.

[Rwst (rwst)]

Confirmed on OpenSuSE 10.

But: you can just enter the text on canvas (also multiline),
with full Undo/Redo functionality.

[Prokoudine (prokoudine)]

Originator: NO

Confirmed on current SVN trunk, Ubuntu 7.10

[Slythfox (slythfox)]

It seems to be fixed. (0.46pre2 for Win32)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Still reproduced with Inkscape 0.46+devel r22465 on OS X 10.5.8

related: bug #426183

[John Smith (john-smithi)]

Undo / Redo (and shortcuts) now have no affect in the Text dialogs text entry.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

@John - please could you confirm when undo was disabled? Should this actually be "Fix Committed" for 0.49?

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Can anyone please confirm when this was fixed?

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Is it fixed actually? As far as I understand the original description, the bug is still present with r13438. I compared it with 0.46 and saw the same behavior.
Could someone else confirm?

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Reverting fixed status pending confirmation

[ScislaC (scislac)]

It's actually even a little more broken than that... if you type text directly on canvas and then go and type more text in the text field in the T&F dialog, if you don't hit apply and hit undo it will delete the new text in the dialog plus the last letter typed on canvas. So it kind of does a "double undo" in that it does it in both places simultaneously, or at least that is how it appears.

[mray (mrayyyy)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new
bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/333
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/mray