Cluster / group small increment edits like nudging as one "move" in History to undo
In Photoshop, when a user nudges an object by holding down an arrow key for an interval of time, PS clusters that series of nudges as one "move". Then the user can undo all of the nudges at once with one "Undo move" command in the History panel. Since Illy doesn't have a History panel (and why is there no History panel? Don't like it, don't use it.), it's impossible to undo all of the nudges with one "Undo". Please make Illy treat nudges like PS does.
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Peyton Simpson commented
When designing with Illustrator, I often make many small increments at one time like moving an object with the keyboard arrows, increasing/decreasing font size with the arrows, etc. If I want to undo those changes, I have to ctrl-Z dozens of times or scroll through the history panel. Sometimes there are too many small incremental changes, and I cannot undo everything. I think it would be great and helpful if those small incremental changes could be grouped together as one action so undoing them becomes easier and more productive.
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Oleg Krasnov commented
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Derek Jenkins
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Why not both? Nudges need to be grouped together. You can have a 100 "nudges" that would take up an entire "history".
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I'd prefer History panel :)
Still, there is a difference between Ai and PS.
'Move' events get clustered as you say. But move only applies to raster images.
'Drag path' events, when you move vector shapes in Photoshop get recorded one per transformation, as Ai does.
It makes sense, actually. While a piece of raster is just dragged, a vector shape can be dragged partially.
So please vote for the History panel instead: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/filters/new?query=history%20panel
