Hi Nikolai!

On Di, 25 Mai 2010, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> 2010/5/25 Dominique Pellé <[email protected]>:
> > Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> >> That said, I think persistent undo is more or less useless and, well,
> >> just a big pile of potential problems.  Persistent undo is in the
> >> version control system, not in the editor.
> 
> > I think this is a bit harsh.
> 
> And I think persistent undo is a lot problematic and only a bit useful.

And now what? You can always disable it at compile time.

> 
> > Not every file is in version control.
> 
> And that’s the problem.

You don't always have a VCS System available. Sometimes there are 
constraints that prevent you from using an VCS System only for yourself. 
And you can't always change that.

> > And even if you do use a version control system, persistent undo
> > allows you to undo with a smaller granularity than simply
> > reverting revisions in version control system.
> 
> One user added a FileWritePost autocmd to commit changed files to Git
> whenever he saved.  Not that I’d recommend that, but that’s a
> solution.

chrisbra t41:~/vim [1008]% git
zsh: command not found: git
zsh: exit 127   git

> > Users of Vim find different features more or less useful.
> 
> And persistent undo is on par with window tabs in terms of usefulness,
> just above floating point numbers.

As I said, nobody forces you to use vim 7.3. You can always disable it 
at compile time. Or even use vim7.

regards,
Christian

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