[VSCode] Change in behaviour of undo operations.

[akenejie]

In VSCode, when someone performs an undo operation, it is passed on to other editors as a simple change, and when others perform further undos, it becomes an ‘undo what was undone’ operation.

Ideally, the undo operation should apply to the user's own operations and not those of others.

[msujew]

Unfortunately, there's little we can do here - we use the vscode.workspace.applyEdits API, which is the only API that allows to perform edits on open text documents. All edits sent to the applyEdits method are automatically pushed to the undo-redo stack. There is no way to change this behavior.

Closing, as it's a technical limitation of the VS Code API.

[akenejie]

Sorry.

So, could you use a when expression and define a custom Ctrl+Z command to implement a function that stacks when it receives other people's operations from the server and only undo its own operations that are not received from the server?

[msujew]

I guess we could try that, but I can't promise this works well.