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I'm looking for a single word that describes an application that provides the capability to redo or undo steps. My first thoughts were something like modifiable software, which doesn't really suit my needs, or things like step-tracking software. But all these sound a bit wrong or not on-the-spot.

Is there something better?

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    Change Tracking or History?
    – Mitch
    Apr 22, 2013 at 12:54

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You might need some variant of "Versioning" or "History", but if you can get away with multiple words, your original undo/redo is well understood by most computer users.

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  • It's not important that most computer users understand it, it's meant to be used in sourcecode. I'm effectively looking for a name of the interface (how I should name it) that provides this capability.
    – SeToY
    Apr 22, 2013 at 12:12
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    In that case, I'd call it "history". You might get a good answer if you ask this over at programmers.stackexchange.com also.
    – TecBrat
    Apr 22, 2013 at 12:24
  • "History" should be well understood in this context. Cf. jetbrains.com/idea/features/local_history.html
    – anotherdave
    Apr 22, 2013 at 21:30
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All user actions are reversible.

Def: Reversible

More generally: Reversibility

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  • Sounds more like something I'd want... Except that it's not only reversible, it's also the opposite (using the redo mechanism)
    – SeToY
    Apr 22, 2013 at 16:56
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Revertible

adjective 1. able to be returned to a previous state.

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