On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Dominique Pelle wrote: > > Sean wrote: > >>> You can add an undo step whenever you insert a Space this way: >>> :imap <Space> <Space><C-G>u >>> >>> Notes: >>> :imap (vs. :inoremap) is used to still be able to expand abbreviations. >>> There is no endless loop, see >>> :h recursive_mapping
I wouldn't have thought that would affect abbrs... good to know. > One annoying thing with... > > imap <Space> <Space><C-G>u > > ... is that it's not nice when trying to undo after pasting a large piece of > text from clipboard (set paste then middle click to paste), since you > can then only undo word by word which can be painful. It'd be nice to > be able to disable it when pasting text (how??). :set paste ;-) - :set paste disables mappings, abbreviations, auto-indenting, and many other things. If this map still fires, something is wrong. > Instead of remapping <space>, I prefer to just have the > following mappings (which don't interfere with pasting text): > > inoremap <c-u> <c-g>u<c-u> > inoremap <c-w> <c-g>u<c-w> > inoremap <bs> <c-g>u<bs> > inoremap <del> <c-g>u<del> > > Since I often use those keys while in insert mode, it's enough > to increase the granularity of undo for me. +1 > When doing that, it might also be wise to increase undolevel: > > set undolevels=2000 +1 Though I think I'd do even more than that if I used those maps... I sometimes use :earlier 24h or some such to let me view the code I had yesterday without a VCS, assuming no vim crash, and I'd be sad if I'd made too many changes for that to work... ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
