Help! I lost all my work in a matter of seconds.

[brittle horizon]

I don't know what key combination I pressed. It's all gone now! I put so many hours into it, I'm currently feeling very upset. It's very important work too. Yes, I should have kept local backups instead of trusting the typst website... I realize that now. Next time I will use some other method, maybe local editing in my machine with git version control. But I did like the instant feedback I get on the website. Anyway, if there's any chance I can get my document back, please someone tell me. It will save me so many hours of my life. Also, how is it possible to delete an entire document without even a confirmation? I mean, the document is there, but it became entirely blank! And no, ctrl+z isn't helping. I suppose it's unlikely, but I am really hoping there's a way to fix this... Thanks.

[strong pebble]

<@&1200368100202258552> may be able to recover some of your data

[brittle horizon]

thanks! I really hope so!

[high birch]

can you send an email with the project's URL to [email protected] from your account email?

[brittle horizon]

sure thing

[brittle horizon]

I sent the email

[high birch]

I'll take a look

[brittle horizon]

thank you so much!

[high birch]

I sent you an email with a recovered version from approximately half an hour ago. I hope it has all the content you need!

[brittle horizon]

this is wonderful news!

[high birch]

To better understand what happened, I have a question: Did the page refresh somewhere in the process or did it go from content to blank and Ctrl+Z not working without a page reload?

[brittle horizon]

I didn't refresh, but I did go to the home menu

I thought something glitched out, so I tried exiting and going back to the document

[high birch]

Okay, that will definitely clear the Ctrl + Z buffer

[brittle horizon]

at the moment, I didn't realize it was erased

I thought I simply couldn't see it

[high birch]

yeah, makes sense

[brittle horizon]

what key combination clears the document?

[high birch]

there isn't a key combination for clearing everything. maybe you somehow selected everything by accident and then typed or deleted in quick succession?

[brittle horizon]

ctrl+A and then backspace or delete, right?

[high birch]

that would do it yes

[brittle horizon]

seems unlikely, but I guess

[high birch]

idk

do you use the Vim mode?

[brittle horizon]

no

anyway, thank you so much for the help

I was freaking out lol

[high birch]

happy to help

[brittle horizon]

going back to work, I realized the last thing I was typing was very likely a capital letter A

so I probably hit ctrl instead of shift there

and then I was only a single key away from deleting everything 🙂

[high birch]

oh that makes a lot of sense

I'll think how we can improve the experience when that happens

[brittle horizon]

It seems there are backups in the backend already. Just having access to those would be wonderful.

[high birch]

we plan to build proper version history for users, but it will still take some time. the existing backups are very raw.

[jaunty knot]

Is there a reason why it couldn't be persistent?

It would save you headaches and time spent doing stuff like this 🙂

[high birch]

I've also just considered that as a possible solution. Right now we're using the built-in solution of Yjs but we could roll our own persistent one.

[strong pebble]

I wanted to propose the same thing :D

[uncut matrix]

I use caps lock instead of shift for all capital letters. I've been considering switching to the more conventional technique, but this has definitely deterred me lol

[glad berry]

I'm curious, is that a habit that comes from having used on-screen keyboards before physical ones? I've seen this before, and from the age of the people that did this that was my impression.

[olive ridge]

There's this thing I can't remember its name. Instead of holding a modifier key, you just press it once, and it just sticks until you press a non-modifier key. I have been thinking of using that for a while. It is like better version of caps-lock for one-time events (capital letters were a mistake either way).

[glad berry]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys

[olive ridge]

I was just gonna mention that. I have seen many folks struggle with this issue. It can be very overwhelming when your whole work is gone (haven't we all learned to be careful with git commands we just don't understand haha). Another solution is store the changes in the backend (if you're not already referring to that).

[olive ridge]

Now, I need to find a way to enable it on X11 hahah

[strong pebble]

I am using https://github.com/jtroo/kanata (not for sticky keys though), but it states that sticky keys are supported

[uncut matrix]

Sticky keys is what I had with my old keyboard

The issue was that they would stick randomly

[bitter sierra]

well after ctrl+a basically every key
will just replace selection with a single character