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14.6 The ‘Edit’ Menu
14.6.1 ‘Edit’ Menu Entries
Figure 14.31: Contents of the Edit Menu
In this section, you will find help for commands in the Edit menu item.
Note
Besides the commands described here, you may also find other entries in the menu. They are not part of GIMP itself,
but have been added by extensions (plug-ins). You can find information about the functionality of a Plugin by referring
to its documentation.
14.6.2 Undo
If you have made drawing or editing changes to the image which you don’t want to keep, the Undo command allows you to undo
the last change and return the image to its previous state. Almost anything you do to an image can be undone in this way (with
the exception of scripts, which deactivate this function). Further Undo operations may be performed, depending upon the number
of Undo levels configured in the Environment page of the Preferences Dialog. See the section on Undoing for more information
about GIMP’s very sophisticated ‘Undo’ functions.
The operation that has been ‘undone’ is not lost immediately: you can get it back by using the Redo command right away. But if
you perform another operation, the ‘Undo’ will be irretrievably lost.
14.6.2.1 Activating the Command
• You can access this command from the image menubar through Edit → Undo,
• by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Z,
• or by simply clicking on the status you want in the Undo History dialog.