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.