Re: Revert all undos

On 2024-10-23 15:53, BPJ wrote:
> Is there a single mapping or command for reverting/redoing all undos, or
> alternatively how could one be created, e.g. is there a way to get the
> number of extant undos?[1]
[snip]
> [1]: Obviously I can do `:w` before the undos and then `:e` but I keep
> forgetting the `:w`! :-)

While this works, note that it also loses those undo points and any
jumps (`:help jumplist`) or marks you've set in the file.

Often, if you're bulk-undoing, that's fine. But it's worth being aware
that :e overwrites some state you might care about.


Other possibilities:

- you should be able to use a count with undo like

15u

and it doesn't complain about you requesting more undo than exists, so
you can do ridiculous counts like

99999u

to undo lots of changes

- you can use :earlier and :later to navigate based the undo tree based
on time rather than undo counts, so you can do things like

:earlier 15m
:earlier 2h
:earlier 1f

(and in typing that up, I learned about the "f" suffix for
file-write-counts...nice!)

-tim





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