# Cannot undo pasted text in composer with ctrl-z

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-undo-pasted-text-in-composer-with-ctrl-z/212177
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-undo-pasted-text-in-composer-with-ctrl-z/212177 "2021-12-15T10:58:10Z")
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### Author: ![maiki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maiki/32/233950_2.png) [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-undo-pasted-text-in-composer-with-ctrl-z/212177/2 "2021-12-15T11:19:40Z")

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> [@Ivan\_Rapekas](#):
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> Is it okay? I found that usually browsers undo typed and pasted text with ctrl+z.

I tried a few text operations, and Ctrl + z applied `undo` as expected each time; tested with Firefox (Flatpak, PureOS and Fedora).

It’s an old reply, but:

> [@Ctrl+Z does not undo my previous step](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-z-does-not-undo-my-previous-step/23507/2):
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> This is 100% browser and OS specific, we do not override the default browser text box handling of these keys. You can experiment here: Take [http://codepen.io/anon/pen/uryJl](http://codepen.io/anon/pen/uryJl) which contains a plain html text box. In different web browsers, type in test line one test line two test line three And then try ctrl+z. Depends on the browser and whether you naturally pause or not when typing. Play with it and see.

I don’t use Windows 11, is there perhaps a setting for that at the OS level? 🤔

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