how often do you see a howto that instructs you to edit a config file for a 1 line change? I'd love to see an enhancement that would convert the vim edit history to an ex command line invocation. It should automatically try and determine a string that would uniquely identify each line changed rather than generate seeks to line numbers which could change from file version to file version. when vim is exited it would automatically display the resulting ex command(s) so they could be copied to the clipboard (or even just insert them directly to the terminal clipboard so they can be pasted into the documentation to provide a quick/simple way to other to make the same change. verification prior to exit by copying the ~ file to tmp and executing the ex against it and making sure the result is identical to the version about to be written would be good insurance.
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