Hi Mun! On Di, 17 Nov 2009, Mun wrote:
> 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 . Wouldn't that be a perfect use case for undo_branches? With the plugin undo_tags¹ you can tag a certain state and revert to that branch whenever you like. ¹)http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1997 regards, Christian -- :wq --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
