This has happened twice now where I'm editing some code. I'll try to "tab" over a selected block of code, which does not work as expected, but rather just deletes the entire selection. So, right click and "undo" which totally clears the editor.
Then I'm horrified to learn that the editor has actually saved the empty area, so my code is gone forever.
Think I will stick to a good old fashioned text editor :)
Hi Bob,
I've had a related issue recently. When I navigate back to the editor, it will be blank. I'll need to refresh the browser to see the code again.
Grant
Hello Bob/Grant,
I've lost code due to 'data' auto-completing and clearing the rest of the line and also because of a spurious 'you are no longer logged in' messages.
We really need:
a working 'undo' feature in the IDE.
the ability to save an algo under a different name (try this now and the old one disappears)
to load/save code from the IDE to the local machine
P.
I hadn't run into the undo problem before. I'm going to look into that one and see if we can fix that - that sounds like a very unpleasant failure mode. I'm sorry you ran into it.
I keep a pretty close eye on our failure rates. When our browser editor hits an error, it sends back a distress signal. (Of course, the nightmare for me would be when the error is so bad that it can't even send a distress signal - but I don't think that is happening much). We had some higher error rates in the end of September and early October, did some fixes, and got them back down again. We keep working on getting it even lower.
We have better cloning/copying/organizing/sourcecontrol on the road map. We may do an out-of-browser IDE, too, but we haven't settled on what that would look like.
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