Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 1:50 pm, Vsevolod Velichko wrote: > > Christian, thanks for your answer. > > Yes, all the files I've lost were created from scratch, so I suppose, > > that undofile contains all the file history (undolevels=1000 should be > > sufficient for every file). > > Ok then here is a patch. It allows to use :rundo! to let vim read in any > undo file. You need to create a new empty file with more lines, than your > original file had, e.g. 1000 empty lines. Then do :rundo! original_file.un~ > and you can move through the undo history using g- and g+ or using > the :earlier :later commands. > The histwin or gundo plugin may also come useful to see your different > undo branches.
This is an interesting idea. Not only when the file was deleted, but also when it was changed by another program. Perhaps we can have a "starting point" marker in the undo file, where the base file is completely empty. From there it's always possible to repeat changes. With some command to do this, perhaps ":undorecover"? When trying to load the undo file and the hash doesn't match, and there is a starting point marker, we could give the user a hint that :undorecover can be used. -- I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
