> without the plugin, it's effectively inaccessible I wouldn't say that. Plain Vim does have the `:earlier` and `:later` commands, which aren’t too hard to use

> without the plugin, it's effectively inaccessible I wouldn't say that. Plain Vim does have the `:earlier` and `:later` commands, which aren’t too hard to use in the case you described. For example, `:earlier 40sec` takes you to the state of the file as you saw it 40 seconds ago, no matter where in the undo tree you are or were. I agree that undo-tree is usually easier to use, though.