Re: Oh no! Vim eats my text - Naughty Vim. [Was: Any poets here?]

Erik Christiansen wrote:

> On 30.01.15 21:11, kouzennoki@gmail.com wrote:
> > Sometimes hating the day I (or it) was born when I accidentily delete a
> > piece of text and I cannot revert the change for some reason.
>
> Accidental deletion becomes less frequent with increasing competence in
> the use of an editor ... here, often awareness of the current mode. Lack
> of concentration can lead to loss of mode awareness, and result in
> clumsy mis-edits. PEBKAC. Vim removes any painful consequences, whatever
> the cause though, through its marvellous multi-level undo facility. If
> you have used vim for more than a day or two, and _still_ muck up the
> undo, then:
>
> :h undo
>
> and _practice_! ("Do, or do not; there is no try.")

And set the 'undofile' option. Then the only way to lose changes is
when the file is changed outside of Vim. I rely on Vim being able to
undo changes a lot, especially when debugging.

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