On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 5:56 AM Daan van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear vim devs,
>
> There is one seemingly simple feature that is missing in vim, so I though it
> is time to bring it up:
>
> Feature: simple action (dot-key) history table.
>
> Quoting vim help:
> ```
> There are actually five history tables:
> - one for ':' commands
> - one for search strings
> - one for expressions
> - one for input lines, typed for the input() function.
> - one for debug mode commands
> ```
>
> I'm sure there is a good reason, but why does a table for "repeat last
> change" (. key) not exist?
>
> One nice thing about the history tables is that they are persistent across
> restarts. Pressing 'n' after starting vim will repeat the last 'search',
> pressing '.' would repeat the last 'action'...
>
> Best, Daan
I think the reason is that (in 'nocompatible' mode) there is an undo
feature which allows you to go back any number of recent changes, then
go forward redoing them.
See
:help u
:help CTRL-R
and in general
:help undo.txt
Best regards,
Tony.
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