Re: Ability to undo changes from outside Vim

Ah, thanks; that'd be it. undoreload is set by default to 10000, and my file is now over that many lines. I set it to -1 and that made it work.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:36:31 PM UTC-5, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> In my vimrc I have
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>   set undofile
>   set undodir=~/.vimundo
> -- thus I am almost always able to undo changes done in Vim even if I close a file and reopen it. One other benefit I've enjoyed for a while is the behavior where, if I have a file open in Vim, and some program besides Vim modifies the file, not only does Vim prompt me about whether I want to load the up-to-date version of the file, but even if I do so I can still press u to undo the *external* changes. However, today I noticed this isn't working anymore on my Windows machine (I will check on my Mac and Linux later).
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> Does anyone know how I can make it behave the old way again?

Check the help for the 'undoreload' option; perhaps you're hitting the limits there.

Question for the list, :help 'undoreload' says "The save only happens when this options is negative or when the number of lines is smaller than the value of this option".

Does that mean you can set it to -1 to make it always save without any line-number limit?

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