Add a message overly sensitive

Add a message is overly sensitive
It seems to me that if I hit a wrong keyboard combination whilst typing a POST,
it just wipes the slate clean. Why?
and you can't recover it either. :-(

>1 JonathonL88: where, what and how? :-)

I.e. this is not a very clear Recommend Site Improvement.

I have never had the site 'wipe the slate clean' whilst typing post. Did you maybe hit 'ctrl+a' and then 'delete' or 'backspace' or 'ctrl+x'? This is a well-known shortcut which will delete your message on any website or program, not just LibraryThing. I would not want shortcuts that I use removed on the off-chance someone who didn't mean to use a shortcut hits the wrong keys.

If your message is deleted whilst typing it, have you tried using 'ctrl+z' to undo whatever you did that got rid of it? I can highlight and delete my message whilst typing it, and if I hit 'ctrl+z' before I do anything else, it gives me my words back.

I do not know what I did, but I did it several times.
I do not usually have this problem so I thought it was just one those LT quirks, hence flagging it up here
I will just have to type more carefully :-(

I rarely lose unsaved messages, but if I do it is because of clicking to a different page. Sometimes I can recover my message, sometimes not, but it certainly is always something I did.

It’s happened to me occasionally. It’s aggravating but I blame it on gremlins, or the universe telling me to go do something besides the internet.

>6 2wonderY: I have a chromebook with touchpad and if I forget to turn off the touchpad I can do stuff similar to 'ctrl+a' and a random letter from the keyboard. So I normally turn off the touchpad when typing text.

>4 JonathonL88: The next time it happens, try to figure out what went wrong. Sometimes improvements can be made even for situations like this, but not without knowing exactly what's happening