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by mintplant 711 days ago
Similarly, I have unlimited persistent per-file undo turned on in Neovim. I can open any file I've edited previously and walk through the full history of how it got there. With Undotree [0], I can even navigate branching paths in development. I don't know how people live without this.

[0] https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
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rustyminnow 711 days ago
What are your undo settings? I set undofile and undodir, but not sure if it's unlimited.

One issue I have is if nvim is closed and the file is touched by some outside process (say git pull) it clobbers the history. Do you know if there's a fix to that?

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koonix 711 days ago
Oh yes there is: https://github.com/kevinhwang91/nvim-fundo
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mintplant 711 days ago
re: undo settings, I set my `undolevels` [0] to a very high number to make it unlimited for all intents and purposes.

[0] https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'undolev...

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