Hi all, I have been using the Persistent Undo patch for several months now and I have a general comment regarding it's usability. Jordan and I had a private conversation about this a while back, and he requested I post something to the list so as to provide a broader audience for feedback.
Note that I have set the 'undofile' option in my .vimrc because I don't want to have to remember to use :wundo . Often times I need to make a _temporary_ change to a file; so I make the change and save it without exiting. After doing whatever I need to with the altered file I generally want to quickly revert back to the "original" file (i.e., back to the file contents as they were prior to the *current* editing session). In the past, I would do something like "1000u" and then save it and exit. But with undofile set, if an undofile exits and is applicable, the saved edits will be undone as well. Of course, this is by design. But I would prefer an easy way to undo everything up to the point of reading the undofile while keeping "set undofile" specified in my .vimrc . Perhaps one way of doing this would be if instead of the single 'undofile' option we had 'writeundofile' and 'readundofile'? That way I could set my .vimrc to always write out the undo file, but only read it in when I used :rundo . Although, this is not backward compatible with the current patch. Another possibility would be for 'undofile' to be a string variable with possible choices being something like "read, write, both". Where "both" is the default for backward compatibility. Regards, -- Mun --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
