Thanks Ben I should have made it clear, I have not exited the edit session in which these deletions occurred.
Ben Fritz wrote on Thu-02-Jan 14 4:19PM > > And when executing undotree(), this alert; > > E731: using Dictionary as a String > > Well you didn't mention how you tried using the return result of undotree(), > but there are at least four plugins useful for viewing your undo history. See > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_undo_branches#Plugins These look good. I fear there is a misconfiguration as I get this E731: error message even when starting a fresh vim session and then exacting undotree() after some editing. So seems to be a general issue with my vim config and not only of the session in questions. Some additional information: The command wundo, writes a file identical to the automatic undofile pepper:~> ls -l guys -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 70 Dec 29 00:23 guys pepper:~> ls -l .guys.un\~ -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 422693 Dec 29 00:23 .guys.un~ pepper:~> strings .guys.un\~ UnDo A{ X 03 November 2013 > > But if you somehow exited Vim without saving, I think the undo information > you're looking for may be lost, especially with that E825 message. > > :help E825 says: > > *E825* The undo file does not contain valid contents and cannot be used. I cannot remember the command that gave this message :( (I ran the command some time ago - this problem has been pending until I had some time to try a few things, before posting). Eric -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
