Question - IDE Undo-steps being wiped, when deselecting a window?

[NilsRungholm]

I've recently transitioned from GM:S 1.4x to GM:S 2 due to the discontinuation of 1.4x, and there are a lot of things I don't get about the new interface..

My issue is: I've gotten into a habit of holding 'space' and dragging, to look around in my workspace. This seems like to the only way to look left/right, as 'ctrl'+'tab' won't allow me to jump directly to an open block of code. If I accidentally have the cursor inside some code, 'space' will write a lot of spaces and the mouse-button will highlight text - in addition to dragging the view around.

This means that I sometimes highlight a few lines, overwrite them with space, and then I can't undo more than 2-3 steps, wiping my code off the face of the earth. I do suspect that the temporarily stored undo-steps are being wiped, because I deselect and select the window unwittingly whist dragging... (?)

Is there any way to circumvent this problem, and/or to increase the number of undo-steps being stored (if that's the issue)? ...as you can imagine, this gets pretty frustrating (especially since I didn't even want to move to GM:S 2 in the first place, let alone pay for it).

Thank you in advance.

 

[Zeralith]

On a Windows desktop, you can hold middle-mouse button down to drag your Workspace around. If you're on a laptop (with a trackpad) or a macOS computer (with only a 1 button mouse), then there are other options for you to navigate the Workspace.

They can be found, in the manual, here: https://docs2.yoyogames.com/source/_build/1_overview/2_quick_start/3_workspaces.html

and here: https://docs2.yoyogames.com/source/_build/1_overview/1_getting_started/8_input.html

To see how big your Undo/Redo history is, I believe that setting is in:

File >> Preferences >> Text Editors >> Code Editor

Scroll down to the very bottom, of this Code Editor tab, and you'll see an edit field for "Undo/Redo stack limit (<0 unlimited)"

Mine is currently set to "-1" and it seems to work correctly.