Donald Allen <[email protected]>: >>> Let's consider this a feature request, then. I think it's completely >>> reasonable to expect 'undo' to reverse the side-effects of an undone >>> command, where that's possible (I wouldn't expect it to undo the >>> changes to the filesystem as a result of a write command, for >>> example). In this case, I'd yanked some text that I wanted to 'put' in >>> a bunch of places. While going through the buffer, putting the text >>> where I wanted it, I noticed a line that needed to come out, so I >>> deleted it. Naturally, the next attempt to put gave me that line >>> instead of the original text I'd yanked. >> >> Then you should have been putting from register 0 instead of register ". >> Register 0 is the last yank, while register " is the last yank or >> delete. > > Yes, you are right (in fact, that's how I proceeded after realizing > undo didn't restore the register stack). But I'm talking about > ease-of-use and efficient editing, and 'p' is a lot faster and easier > to type than '"0p' (after all, this is the editor where Steve Oualline > tells you on page 6 of his book not to use the arrow keys for cursor > movement, because it will slow down your editing). If undo restored > the stack as it was before the command I undid, I could have used 'p'. > I also think that what I'm proposing presents a more sensible model of > undo to the user. Ideally, (in my opinion), after 'undo', the world > would be as if the undone command had never been executed. That's > impossible to do perfectly, I understand that. But I think vim can > come closer to the ideal than it does now.
You should check out the YankRing plugin, it makes handling these sorts of situations easier: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234 Jan -- -[ OpenPGP key ID: 00A0FD5F ]- A smoking section in a restauraunt is like having a peeing section in a pool. -- Dave Broadfoot -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
