A more friendly note/rest erase tool
I suggest something like the Finale note eraser tool. You simply click on it, and can click in each individual note or rest to delete. Currently, the Backspace and Delete keys are used to delete notes from score. This shortcuts are very problematics and have odd behavior. (The backspace have a strange bug that sometimes undo actions instead delete the previous notes)
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Can you describe the "odd behavior" or whatever bug you have seen in more detail? I find these keys work exactly as they are documented to work, and don't see how needing to switch to another tool and then presumably back again is ever easier than simply pressing Delete.
In reply to Can you describe the "odd by Marc Sabatella
The bug is about the backspace. In the manual, the shortcut for Undo is Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Z and only Backspace for erase notes (yes, it´s a perfect and very useful tool for me). The problem is that sometimes when you press only backspace, the MS undo actions instead erase the notes. For me it´s a "strange" behavior. About the delete key, if you want to delete a single note, it´s right, but become boring when you have a lot of individual notes (not the entire staves) in different staves.
(click and delete, click and delete, so many times.... why not only one click? well, it´s just a suggestion, not a critic.) .
In reply to The bug is about the by jeff.leadmann
... 'click and delete, click and delete so many times', try this for erasing multiple notes:
Holding the 'Ctrl' key down, click on several notes to highlight them -- then hit delete once. (Although why not make corrections simply by overwriting the wrong notes?)
As far as a rest erase tool is concerned, be aware that rests in MuseScore should be regarded as temporal placeholders - either for a note; or another (longer/shorter) rest. That's why a rest appears when a note is deleted.
Deleting a measure, or measures, is about the only way to actually 'delete' rests (i.e. make time disappear).
These forums have many discussions regarding MuseScore compared to Finale and Sibelius. A search will make for interesting reading.
Regards...
In reply to The bug is about the by jeff.leadmann
You can click one note and ctrl-click others, then Del all in one go
In reply to The bug is about the by jeff.leadmann
And even the ctrl click method is needed only for discontiguous selections. In most situations, click the first note, shift click the last, then a single press of delete. Three clicks total to delete as many notes as you want.
In reply to The bug is about the by jeff.leadmann
Can you point to the page where Alt+Backspace is indicated for undo?
As far as I know Backspace is mapped to Undo and Delete to delete.