Questions tagged [undo-redo]
Question about navigation in the undo history, undoing, and redoing changes
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Make affected segment blink when undo/redo
I often find it difficult to see what's changing when I redo or undo because I can't immediately see where the cursor is. Is there a way to make the affected line or characters blink when undo/redo ...
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How to see offscreen undo changes?
Imagine a text file with some words on the first line, one-thousand blank lines, and some text on the last line.
this is a first line of text.
<1000 blank lines>
Last line of text.
From the ...
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How to save a file in Vim in a way as if :wq had been issued but without exiting the editor?
I use gh (the official GitHub CLI tool) to edit my gists from the terminal. When I issue gh gist edit <gist-ID> then Vim opens, I do the deed, and when I save the file and quit Vim (by using :...
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Why does cw followed by ctrl-r register consist of two edits?
I did cwCtrl-Ra at the beginning of a word to paste the content of register a in its place. And this, I thought, is done entering insert mode only once; or at least, never going back to normal mode.
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Method for each split to have its own undo buffer?
Often, I want to edit multiple different parts of the same file simultaneously. This is usually done with a number of splits. Is there a way such that the undo history in each split is separate? E.g., ...
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Alternative to Gundo tree that avoid messing up my window layout
There are several plugins which open a window on the left or right side, nerdtree and tagbar being just to examles.
And then there's gundo, the functionality of which is invaluable, but lord... it ...
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Break the undo sequence in normal mode
Question: Is there something which is works same as i_CTRL-G_u, but for normal mode?
This would be useful in mappings (like nnoremap), because (I think, but fixme) in normal mode, if you are just ...
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Vim undofile does not work when file is too long
I use a vim persistent undo setup as follows, which have worked all that way here.
set undofile
set undodir=~/.vim/undodir
However now I'm facing a problem when the undofile became too long, notice ...
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Undo <count> macro instances
Often I would record a macro and run it till end of file like 200@q. However, there may be a few lines/instances at the bottom I don't want to run the macro on (like 5 lines). Pressing u would undo ...
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Why does Vim say "Already at newest change" despite a full "changes" history list?
I seem to be unable to undo something in a file I saved, despite that the history of changes shows up with I press :changes. So the change history is known to vim but I cannot access it?
I thought it ...
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how do you undo a few operations in the vi editor
i have just tried something of which i don't know how it worked out but thanks it did. i have been trying to undo a few operations of dl which deleted a few letters. it didn't work as it kept on ...
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Possible to rename file and maintain undo?
Is there a way to rename/copy/move a file and maintain the vim persistent undo information?
If I do
:w new-file-name
and then
:e new-file-name
I can't hit u to undo. Already at oldest change :-(
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Plugin to edit whole datasets/projects
I'm using vim all the time for text editing these days, and have a particular use case: editing a dataset using successive commands. The main problem, as often, is fixing things, ideally rather ...
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How can I undo `zg`?
I'm checking spelling in a document. I find a misspelled word and intend to press z= to get suggestions, but I accidentally press zg, marking this as a "good" spelling.
How can I undo that?
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Persistent undo erases my file
I have been trying to get persistent undo to work for over a day now. I keep having a quite unusual bug. I tried the following:
" Let's save undo info!
if !isdirectory($HOME."/.vim")
call mkdir($...
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How do I receive an alert message indicating that persistent undo will be ignored?
I am using Vim 7.4. According to vim's help on persistent undo:
An undo file is also ignored if its owner differs from the owner of the edited file.
Set 'verbose' to get a message about that when ...
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partial redo/undo [duplicate]
when writing the following line a word by word:
word1 word2 word3
I want to be able to undo like this:
word1 word2 word
word1 word2 wor
word1 word2 w
...
If I use u, it will remove the entire line....
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How to undo all changes in current session when undofile is on? [duplicate]
Without 'undofile', one can hold u or execute undo 0.
With 'undofile', everything changed, hold u will undo changes made in older sessions, undo 0 will undo the entire undo history, they became ...
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make u (undo) also reset . (repeat last command)?
Sometimes I make a change, then in my scramble to move to somewhere else that I want to repeat the change, I accidentally make some edit (e.g. ill).
I would normally undo the accidental edit with u, ...
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Reduce size of undo file
I had a very large (14 digit) decimal number in my (Windows) clipboard. I had vim open in normal mode on the command line at the time. Accidentally, I pressed some key/mouse combination that caused ...
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Automate breaking of history in insert mode
I started to learn ViM one month ago, so I'm not a ViM expert.
My question is: if I make some changes in insert mode (let's say I type some text, then I delete the last two words and finally type ...
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How to make insert mode mapping count as multiple undos?
I have the following mappings:
nnoremap # /___<CR>ciw
imap # <Esc>:w<CR><Esc>#
And the following file that I am editing:
foo ___
goo ___
hoo ___
The idea is that I start at ...
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Automatic <C-g>u to break undo block? [closed]
What possible downsides are there to using <C-g>u on a regular basis to break the undo chain in small chunks, e.g. after every line-break or after every sentence? Has someone experiences with ...
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Undo to a specific user defined point
I'm using U in normal mode to undo steps in vim, I wonder how to set a sort of a bookmark and create a undo command to undo steps/reverse to the bookmark moment in Vim. This would be nicer than just ...
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Exiting and entering insert mode again with key-binding
I'd like to experiment one of the tip by Drew Neil in his Vimcast, that is to "escape" regularly, so that it gives more granularity to the "undo" command.
For example, I write one short sentence. ...
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Show changes since buffer was opened
Is it possible to show all changes made to a buffer since the buffer was opened?
This question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/749297/can-i-see-changes-before-i-save-my-file-in-vim is related, ...
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How can I make Vim not remember a command?
I have set up an autocommand, that makes some changes to the file I'm working on, whenever I save. Everything works nice and dandy, except one thing.
Whenever I save, and press . afterwards, or undo ...
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"diff"-ing current with "earlier" time
I have a file opened and I know I can do :diffsplit to open the file in a diff view.
I also know that I can do something like :earlier 30m to see how the file was 30 minutes ago.
My question is: how ...
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How to drop undo history?
Previously (as far as I remember), e! used to drop undo history. Now, I'm using vim 8.0, and e! doesn't drop it.
How to drop undo history in vim 8.0?
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How to undo the deletion of characters in insert mode caused by Ctrl-U?
I changed my Caps Lock key to Ctrl, and as I'm still getting used to it I sometimes enter combinations I didn't intend to.
While in insert mode typing, having already written most of a long sentence, ...
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Return to current state of file after issuing :earlier command?
Sometimes I want to get back and copy some old code that I deleted and use it. For example, I'll do:
:earlier 12h
and then yank the deleted code.
To get back to where I was, I'll issue a command ...
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Saving .swp/.un~ files to subdirectories
Is there any way to save these files to automatically created subdirs? Google gave me no answers.
The reason is simple- I work on several computers which I keep synced via git, so having these files ...
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Bash process substitution on vim command line?
I want to be able to show someone a particular file's undo history in vim, remotely. It's a little complicated, so let me explain one step at a time.
For starters, I can set a custom undofile and ...
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Local persistent undo file modeline
I have undodir=~/.vim/undodir such that persistent-undo history files don't clutter my source code directories.
However, for one particular source file, I'd like to have its persistent-undo history ...
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Using colon-commands inside ternary expression
I have the following lines in my .vimrc
let g = 0
inoremap <silent> <C-g> <C-o>:let g = !g<CR>
inoremap <expr> <C-_> <C-o>(g == 0 ? :undo : :redo)<CR>
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How to view the command that was just un(re)done
Is it possible to see the sequence of key presses that are undone/redone when using u and Ctrl-r commands?
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Vim - edit last action before using (.)
Related to but not duplicate¹ of Bundling command sequences together for repeat (.).
The point (.) command is really useful to redo the last action (insertion, replacement, etc.).
Sometimes I find ...
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Vim scp undo clears file
When I open up a file remotely using scp (and possibly other protocols), running the undo command (right away, or repeatedly if I've made edits) clears the file. Why does this happen - is it a bug?
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How can I undo an entire command (e.g. d4b), including the motions?
Say I do d4b, then realize I only needed d3b. If I hit u, it'll only undo the d part, and I'll still be 4 words back as if I just did 4b. I'd like to end up exactly where I was before I executed d4b.
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Any way to retrieve lost undo tree after closing window (but buffer is still open)
A lot of times, I end up accidentally closing a file with :wq when I only want to do :w. Since I work with multiple tabs and windows, the buffer is still there and I can open it with :ls followed by :...
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Console vim(x): Can I map the scroll wheel to undo--redo?
It's sort-of a follow to a recent XKCD. I want to know whether it's possible to map the scroll wheel to undo and redo, possibly n undos/redos per scroll?
I'm using mate-terminal in MATE 1.6.x, bash, ...
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undo last change on current line
I regularly find myself editing some code, encountering an error in a function and then changing the function call and the function itself to debug the problem. Once the problem in the function is ...
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Persistent undo not working
I have the following in my .vimrc file:
if has('persistent_undo')
" Save all undo files in a single location (less messy, more risky)...
set undodir=$HOME/.VIM_UNDO_FILES
" Save a lot of ...
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How to prevent Vim from clearing history?
Is there way to prevent Vim from clearing history after exiting Vim?
I want to be able to see the changes I made, while I am using Gundo (or UndoTree), even though I quit vim and the terminal and ...
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Is it possible to remove an entry from the undo history?
I have these lines in my .vimrc to help with indentation:
autocmd BufReadPost * set noexpandtab | retab! 4
autocmd BufWritePre * set expandtab | retab! 4
autocmd BufWritePost * set noexpandtab | ...
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Turn Vim's multiple undo history into git commits?
When refactoring I sometimes do too much at once—all little steps, but I forget to commit after each little change.
Of course in many cases a commit after each change would be too much, but if each ...
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Redo earlier edit operation
This is a newbie's question, so please be patient if I do not use the right terms.
I know I can use "." to redo my last edit operation. But, is there a way to redo the one just before that?
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Linewise history
We can use the u, <C-R> to undo/redo in Vim and it provides a lot of features to manage the undo tree.
But sometimes, I make a change (let say on line 1) and I go do some other changes on ...
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How can I filter a buffer to an external command on save without causing any side effects?
Since importing a package and not using it in Go is a compilation error,
fixing the import manually can be a bit of a pain while debugging, so I'm currently using this to fix it up automatically ...
