Highlighting: two changes programmers should make

Love the highlighting feature, love that you can key it to a keystroke. I wish I could select words by double-clicking and dragging, as in other apps, but I understand that that would overlap a more important function (instant search).

Here, however, are two things I think the code-writers should change:

Highlighting should be subject to the universal Ctrl+Z function. More than once, due to the program's occasional twitchiness, I think I select the text I want and do the keystroke, only to find I've selected much more. For instance, some minor twitch today selected paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs. I had no option but to select them again and erase, thus losing all the individual highlighting I'd previously done. This isn't as should be, and it should be changed.
Allow highlighting in footnotes. It isn't allowed, and it should be.

There y'go. If you know any better way to get this to Their attention. please let me know.

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NB.Mick

More than once, due to the program's occasional twitchiness, I think I select the text I want and do the keystroke, only to find I've selected much more. For instance, some minor twitch today selected paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs. I had no option but to select them again and erase, thus losing all the individual highlighting I'd previously done

Couldn't you just delete this mis-placed highlight from the respective notes file, leaving the others intact? Not as intuitive than a simple "undo" feature, but should work (I'm not at my L5 PC currently to verify)

Allow highlighting in footnotes. It isn't allowed, and it should be.

Yes, Yes, Yes!

NB.Mick

There y'go. If you know any better way to get this to Their attention. please let me know.

Put this into the suggestions forum (which currently takes suggestions for resources as well as features - Logos says they monitor it for the resources, but there's not much feedback there)
Put this into the beta forum - this is actively monitored by Logos
Look whether a uservoice feature suggestion exists (could well be one for a general undo and one for the highlighting in footnotes) and assign votes to it. Logos infrequently responds with "declined" (rarely) "planned", "started" etc.

Graham Criddle

Highlighting should be subject to the universal Ctrl+Z function. More than once, due to the program's occasional twitchiness, I think I select the text I want and do the keystroke, only to find I've selected much more. For instance, some minor twitch today selected paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs. I had no option but to select them again and erase, thus losing all the individual highlighting I'd previously done. This isn't as should be, and it should be changed.

In the absence of this function does http://wiki.logos.com/Highlighting#To_Undo_Highlighting help?

Dan Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/449844#Comment_449844

Thanks Mick, and thanks Graham.

Mick, I don't know where those are, easily, but you may be right. Not very much a Power User yet. [;)]

Graham, a form of that would have worked. If I right-click in the mis-highlighted portion, the popup does give the "Remove annotations" option, and it looks as if that would have just removed the part I just did in error. Thanks, that's very helpful for the future!

But, for my error today... tooooooo laaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!

Scott Groethe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/449852#Comment_449852

Perhaps you have had a different experience but I just did that (right click remove annotations) and it wiped all out for me.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/649335#Comment_649335

Hi Scott

You just responded to a post nearly two years old!