I've not seen it mentioned yet so I'd be remiss not to link to undo tree [1] for vim. I tend to put my list of plug-ins on a diet over time, but undotree is one

I've not seen it mentioned yet so I'd be remiss not to link to undo tree [1] for vim. I tend to put my list of plug-ins on a diet over time, but undotree is one I always kept! Having a visual of the history (like in the article) make it much easier to do a quick back and forth through time. Also for fun, consider having your scroll wheel traverse time instead of space [2]. [1] https://github.com/mbbill/undotree https://github.com/mbbill/undotree [2] https://xkcd.com/1806/ https://xkcd.com/1806/