Cannot undo first undo entry in the undo history widget

[emesare]

1. Rename/create a variable in a freshly opened view
2. Open undo history widget and try and undo it

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[negasora]

"Undo to here" undoes to that action - if we want to change that to "undo to before here" that'd fix this

[emesare]

The reason i marked it as a bug was because i didn't believe it was intentional that we couldn't undo the first entry

[negasora]

Yeah, that action is to undo to after a specific undo action. If the user wants to undo to the beginning they can use that action and then ctrl+z or we can add a separate "undo to before here" action

[fuzyll]

I'm in favor of a separate action. I've just checked some other software and the way it currently works seems to match fairly closely with e.g. graphic design software like Affinity, which also have something like this:

In Affinity, if you click on one of these, it'll bring you to that change. You can go forward/backward in the list until you make another change, at which point it'll truncate the list and put you at the top of it:

They do have a branching set of undo actions, though, which you can see with the little git branch icon. If you click that little branch, it'll cycle between all sets of changes at that point (there can be more than 2).

Anyway, in order to undo the last one, you need to either Cmd-Z or use the little "Position" scrub bar to go the entire way to the left. There are actually no right-click actions.

I'm not saying we should implement all of this, just providing context from another piece of software that has kind of a similar set of circumstances for its functionality.