On Tue, 11 Jul 2023, 20:26 Christian Brabandt, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Di, 11 Jul 2023, ping song wrote: > > > say I've done 3 changes A, B, C. > > but I realized B is a big mistake. A and C is good. > > can I just delete change B, but keep A and C? > > I believe this is not possible. What you can do is, copy the whole > buffer at state C, move back to state A and clear the buffer and paste > the content from State C (effectively creating a new change A->D) An alternative would be to use the history commands to get at each version and either use diff/patch tools or a 3-way merge tool like BeyondCompare to sort it out. e.g. (untested): * Open file at State C * :w statec.txt * Revert to State B * :w stateb.txt * Revert to State A * :w statea.txt * diff -u stateb.txt statec.txt > c_changes.diff * patch -p0 statea.txt < c_changes.diff (check all of those commands before running as they were off the top of my head!) -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAOaJ26Q_D3ny8cc6Bt8ACUB4LMWbR-kN6emaV9uUbh32nZFMxg%40mail.gmail.com.
