back tracking

[PlainName]

Scanned the help and the hotkeys reference but couldn't find any relevant info, so...

Suppose you're laying a track and click a grid point or two past where you really want to fix it. How do you undo that click?

In Altium you press backspace and that rewinds the track (to the beginning if you want). Surely there is an equivalent for Kicad?

[phil from seattle]

Ctl-Z

[PlainName]

That works after the track is finished, but not during active routing.

[bpiphany]

This used to work back in the old days before openGL. I really miss it. Delete and backspace also didn't kick you out of the track laying tool which was real button click saver.

[miceuz]

sounds like a great idea for a feature request:
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/new

[PlainName]

Oh! It's so basic I assumed it was there and I just hadn't found the right key combo. It's sufficient (for me) to know it's really not there so I don't do my brain in looking for it

[apurvdate]

Simplest thing I do is I double click to end the routing there only. Then I can delete individual segments till the point I want to back-track and start from that point again.

[bpiphany]

The thing is that it has become four times or so more clicks. It used to be that if you hit 'backspace' or 'delete' it just tore up the last node you put down. That way you could quickly undo as many segments as you wanted. Now you first need to end the routing operation, delete the segments you want to undo, which kicks you out of routing mode altogether, enter routing mode again, and find the end of the track you were laying again to start routing again.

[PlainName]

Yep, exactly that. Made worse by repeatedly putting the track in the same wrong place each time.