hi guys, I've recently been inspired to take a more serious look at my vim
workflow, and... this is one of the things that has been bugging me and I
would like to get it fixed (if at all possible. Hopefully possible!!!!) . I
did a brief google search for "mark vim history" - didnt find anything
useful.
1. "mark history" - is there a way to possibly mark history ("undo/redo")
states like how you can mark points in text?
I do the following right now:
- "<esc> :w<enter>" when I want to save a "safe history state" for me to go
back to
- do many edits, test things out
- if I'm not happy or decide to abandon this group of edits, I roll back to
that last "safe history state" by hitting 'u' multiple times, constantly
keeping my eye on the status bar to find that ":w" state (no '[ + ]')
I realize typing that out that it sounds like some sort of version control
might be the solution for this, but... seriously, that's just way too much
typing (not vim philosophy!!!), and overkill.
2. does anybody know the setting for how to keep the undo history when I
close a window? I work frequently with multiple buffers - and right now,
when I close a window or bring in a new file with ':e', I lose the history
of the current buffer. I would like to be able to keep the history when I
recall the buffer again.
thanks,
-jf
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