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by justinnhli 1946 days ago
> > (3) There is no visual indicator of where you are are in your undo/redo history.

> There might be plugins that somehow present this info in the interface.

The undotree vim plugin [1] does this, and gives both the file at the time as well as a diff of what changed.

[1]: https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
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dorian-graph 1945 days ago
> undotree

I was going to mention this plugin. I haven't fully mastered quickly jumping around in it, but it's one of those things that when it's useful, it's VERY useful.

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justinnhli 1945 days ago
Ditto. Unless I have to go back a lot of edits, I don't actually use the plugin that often. I've mapped my undo/redo keys to traverse the undo tree instead of the undo stack:

nnoremap u g-

nnoremap <C-r> g+

It takes a little bit of getting use to, but it takes care of most instance where I need a previous edit from a minute ago.

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