Re: Truncate "change" list

On Monday, June 11, 2012 1:36:36 PM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> > Without such an ability, a small feature of my script
> > will give incorrect results. I certainly do not want to
> > have to go through some massive effort to get this to
> > work; I was hoping for some already built-in Vim
> > capability - Vim is really such an open environment.
> >
>
> I'm really curious what this script is that you are making, that you want to make changes which are not part of the undo tree and are not repeatable with '.'. What sort of changes do you think people would want to have these characteristics?
>
> Vim does have the ":undojoin" command which allows you to do something like:
>
> convert to hex output with xxd
> make a change to the hex
> convert back to binary
>
> all in one change, so to the user it looks like (in terms of undo/redo) a single change.
>
> If you have a complicated script you want to run to "repeat" a change with '.', you can check out the repeat.vim utility plugin on vim.org.


For undojoin you can see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Improved_hex_editing for a good example of its use.

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