Re: indexing an undo "state"

iyummy - thanks.

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- Eric Smith
Benjamin R. Haskell said:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >How may I index or name a specific state of the buffer in order to
> >return to it later?
>
> If you mean a specific 'undo' state:
>
> " save position
> let b:saved_state = undotree()['seq_last']
>
> " go to it
>
> " - save the current position, to be able to go back to it
> let b:just_in_case = undotree()['seq_last']
>
> " - go to the saved position
> exe "undo ".b:saved_state
>
> " - not what you wanted?
> exe "undo ".b:just_in_case
>
> :help undotree()
> :help :undo
>
>
>
> If you mean a specific window layout:
>
> " save the view
> let g:window_layout = winsaveview()
>
> " restore it
> call winrestview(g:window_layout)
>
> :help winsaveview()
> :help winrestview()
>
>
> Or a whole editing session (saves lots of stuff), but not generally
> file states:
>
> " make a session
> :mksession filename
>
> :help :mksession
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben
>
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