Re: accidental editing of file

Thanks Marcin and Ben.
Chandra

On 01/04/2014 08:49 PM, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> On 23:07 Fri 03 Jan , Ben Fritz wrote:
>> On Friday, January 3, 2014 11:09:44 PM UTC-6, Chandra Amarasingham wrote:
>>> I am a fairly novice user of vim. One thing I worry about is
>>>
>>> accidentally changing something on the file without being aware of it by
>>>
>>> accidental keystrokes, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way of seeing all the changes which have been made to
>>>
>>> the current file being edited? a "live" diff so to speak?
>>>
>>>
>> There is a command included in the vimrc_example.vim file distributed with Vim, called :DiffOrig.
>>
>> This command will open a scratch buffer containing the current on-disk file contents, and diff it with your current unsaved buffer. Then you can see all the changes you've made.
>>
>> Alternatively, there are also plugins that just let you know what lines have changed, for example, http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3052 for changes since you started editing, or http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4487 for changes since the last commit in your version control system.
>>
>
> This is not directly related but it might be helpful as well: there is also gundo plugin which shows undo tree in a nice format.
> http://sjl.bitbucket.org/gundo.vim/
>
> Best regards,
> Marcin
>

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