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Can I add something from .vimrc? If you put the commands: set undofile set undodir=~/.vim/undodir You get infinite undo in your files. Now when you go i

by AJRF 8y ago

Can I add something from .vimrc? If you put the commands: set undofile set undodir=~/.vim/undodir You get infinite undo in your files. Now when you go into a file, delete or add some text and close your terminal down, the next time you enter vim you can (re|un)do previous operations. Has saved my ass more times than I care to mention over my career!

martin_ 8y ago
This is awesome! Be sure to mkdir ~/.vim/undodir first as vim won't do it for you (or didn't for me)
- m3at 8y ago
  Late on this but in case it's useful: if !isdirectory($HOME . "/.vim/undodir") call mkdir($HOME . "/.vim/undodir", "p") endif set undofile set undodir=~/.vim/undodir
midgetjones 8y ago
I can't believe I didn't know about this! Thanks so much :)
- AJRF 8y ago
  I don't want to sound hyperbolic but its kind of a game changer for text editing. I understand why developers don't have it on by default in other text editors (space) but seeing as I don't fill my HDD with movies or games or any other large media like that, i've got all the space in the world.
  - midgetjones 8y ago
    I actually wrote 'game changer' in my original comment, and got rid of it for the same reason! Now that I've added it to my vimrc, I'm now upping it to 'life-changing'
Tepix 8y ago
Which version of vim added support for this?
- AJRF 8y ago
  7.3 I think - https://lwn.net/Articles/401002/ https://lwn.net/Articles/401002/
  - packetpirate 8y ago
    Damn! My work machine is cut off from outside networks and restricted to the versions of packages on their repo. Guess I can't use it. :/
    - amadio 8y ago
      You can try Gentoo prefix to install stuff into your $HOME: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix
IanCal 8y ago
Excellent if you also use gundo, which gives a nice visual interface to the undo tree in vim. https://sjl.bitbucket.io/gundo.vim/ https://sjl.bitbucket.io/gundo.vim/
cyfex 8y ago
You can also delete old (older than 90 days) undo files with the following in your .vimrc: let s:undos = split(globpath(&undodir, '*'), "\n") call filter(s:undos, 'getftime(v:val) < localtime() - (60 * 60 * 24 * 90)') call map(s:undos, 'delete(v:val)')
aprao 8y ago
This is amazing! Just a note: I had to mkdir the directory in ~/.vim to get it work.

by AJRF 8y ago

martin_ 8y ago

This is awesome! Be sure to mkdir ~/.vim/undodir first as vim won't do it for you (or didn't for me)

m3at 8y ago
Late on this but in case it's useful: if !isdirectory($HOME . "/.vim/undodir") call mkdir($HOME . "/.vim/undodir", "p") endif set undofile set undodir=~/.vim/undodir

midgetjones 8y ago

I can't believe I didn't know about this! Thanks so much :)

AJRF 8y ago
I don't want to sound hyperbolic but its kind of a game changer for text editing. I understand why developers don't have it on by default in other text editors (space) but seeing as I don't fill my HDD with movies or games or any other large media like that, i've got all the space in the world.
- midgetjones 8y ago
  I actually wrote 'game changer' in my original comment, and got rid of it for the same reason! Now that I've added it to my vimrc, I'm now upping it to 'life-changing'

Tepix 8y ago

Which version of vim added support for this?

AJRF 8y ago
7.3 I think - https://lwn.net/Articles/401002/ https://lwn.net/Articles/401002/
- packetpirate 8y ago
  Damn! My work machine is cut off from outside networks and restricted to the versions of packages on their repo. Guess I can't use it. :/
  - amadio 8y ago
    You can try Gentoo prefix to install stuff into your $HOME: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix

IanCal 8y ago

Excellent if you also use gundo, which gives a nice visual interface to the undo tree in vim. https://sjl.bitbucket.io/gundo.vim/ https://sjl.bitbucket.io/gundo.vim/

cyfex 8y ago

You can also delete old (older than 90 days) undo files with the following in your .vimrc: let s:undos = split(globpath(&undodir, '*'), "\n") call filter(s:undos, 'getftime(v:val) < localtime() - (60 * 60 * 24 * 90)') call map(s:undos, 'delete(v:val)')

aprao 8y ago

This is amazing! Just a note: I had to mkdir the directory in ~/.vim to get it work.