Bug 470701

Summary:	[Feature request] Add "Ctrl+Y" as an alternate shortcut for "Redo" in Kate
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kconfig	Reporter:	Olivier FAURE <couteaubleu>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthew Dawson <matthew>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	christoph, kdelibs-bugs-null, pehteimoso-kdebugs, rafael.barbosa.torres
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Olivier FAURE 2023-06-06 13:09:39 UTC

When editing text, you can undo a change you made with Ctrl+Z; you can then apply the change again (undoing the undo) with Ctrl+Shift+Z; this is standard stuff.

However, many users don't know the Ctrl+Shift+Z shortcut, and usually type "Ctrl+Y" to redo a change. It's the shortcut you see in the edit menu of Miscrosoft Word and LibreOffice Writer, for instance. That shortcut is also available in Firefox, Chrome, VsCode, Notepad++, etc.

(Though I think most editors support both shortcuts.)

Also, as far as I'm aware Ctrl+Y currently doesn't have a default assignation. As such, I think it would be worth assigning it as the alternate shortcut for the "Redo" command.

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2023-06-29 17:21:24 UTC

*** Bug 468731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2023-06-29 17:33:15 UTC

Would it make sense to add that to the standard shortcuts?

Comment 3 Olivier FAURE 2023-07-02 12:33:09 UTC

(In reply to Christoph Cullmann from comment #2)
> Would it make sense to add that to the standard shortcuts?

I think so, yes. "Ctrl-Y" is a shortcut a lot of people are used to.

Comment 4 Flaviano Matos 2023-07-04 12:52:29 UTC

That would be just copying Windows, which is not always a good idea. Ctrl+Shift+Z is more intuitive.

Comment 5 Flaviano Matos 2023-07-04 14:28:06 UTC

I should add that Ctrl+Shift+Z is the default shortcut to redo in LibreOffice, which, although not a KDE app, is what most distros ship as an office package.

Comment 6 Olivier FAURE 2023-07-04 15:25:13 UTC

There might have been a miscommunication.

I'm not asking for the Ctrl+Shift+Z shortcut to be removed. I'm asking for both shortcuts to be supported by default. This is also the current behavior in LibreOffice, for instance.