Does *:h changes* help? On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 3:52 PM Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote:
> > On Do, 01 Dez 2022, Salman Halim wrote: > > > One obvious way would be to have Vim go to the :earlier state, grab the > > contents of the buffer, come back to 'now' and then manually do a diff > to see > > what's changed. However, that seems expensive for a large file. I was > > wondering, instead, if there might be a way to somehow get access to the > undo > > information kept by Vim. I tried :wundo, but the file that was written > was in a > > binary format, so wasn't something I could parse. > > I believe gundo provides a way to directly show the diff between various > undo states¹ and I think you are right, the only way to do this is to > manually safe the state of the buffer and run a diff over that file with > the current buffer. I don't think there is an simpler way than that. > > ¹) see e.g. https://simnalamburt.github.io/vim-mundo/#usage and search > for preview pane > > Best, > Christian > -- > Sei sparsam, koste es was es wolle. > > -- > -- > 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20221201155216.GC472721%40256bit.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 --- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAOmRJrerpeSi_esyRdJ59dhjcB7D2MLehgaWBTSJcdLvuiZAkA%40mail.gmail.com.
