Re: swap files reverting my work erroneously

On Tue, August 2, 2011 4:45 pm, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2011-08-02, ZyX wrote:
>> Reply to message «Re: swap files reverting my work erroneously»,
>> sent 08:20:31 02 August 2011, Tuesday
>> by Gary Johnson:
>>
>> > The trouble with
>> > continually saving, though, is that you lose your reference for the
>> > changes you've made to the file since you started editing. That's
>> > not always important, but sometimes it's very handy. And having
>> > swap files means I can do that without worry.
>> Was not this solved by persistent undo introduced in vim-7.3?
>
> No. I don't want to undo my changes, I want to see my changes.

I am sure there are plugins, that allow to do that. I have written
changesPlugin http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3052
that tries to accomplish that (either against SCM or the saved version).

regards,
Christian

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