Why is there a revert shortcut????

[johns57960963]

Can someone please tell me why there is a revert shortcut in illustrator CC? and can someone please explain why in gods name it is the same as the Step Back command in photoshop?! What the H*** is Adobe thinking?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

When you use that shortcut, you get a warning that you will lose your changes.

When you use the Enter key, nothing will happen because Cancel is highlighted.

You have to click Revert to go back to the last saved version.

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, non-uniform shortcuts can be an issue...

But shortcuts can change, IE the undo in Photoshop...

Difficult to keep track and tell users of other apps when something changes.

I wonder where one could ask for more uniform shortcuts, as each app has its own feedback site.

I wonder if there is a creative-cloud wide customer champion where we could address such needs.

[ryan_edwards]

its a good way to 'undo' a bunch of stuff you did in your session and just keep working vs closing and saying 'don't save' etc....

also good for temp edits that you copy paste else where (in that state) and just hit revert to get your file back to its last save-state

It is extremely useful in my opinion.

All adobe apps are made by different people, different mindsets.  Apples and oranges... some apps you get into different thinking/contexts than you would in some other adobe app... so its just the nature of the beast.

You just aren't going to get stuff to conform across all adobe apps unless you painstakingly go in and change it to some custom shortcuts (which is pointless in my opinion, you'd have to do it for every new version etc and keep track of what app gained or lost features)

Just get better at remembering what shortcuts you need and use them... we already use desperate apps (ms word, 3d animation software etc... and we are able to make the logical jump between those as being different for shortcuts)..these CC apps just fall under the same umbrella for ADOBE.. but they are all quite different.

one that always bugged me was ctrl+enter commits text in photoshop... but just enter in after effects does the same (its just a quirk'/nuance that you need to commit to muscle memory or write down somewhere)

these adobe apps have been around forever and they aren't about to conform shortcut keys anytime soon--trust me I've been waiting haha