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On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

384 points · 346 comments · jandeboevrie

  1. Anduia · · focus · HN ↗
    TLDR: Neovim did a breaking change to persistent undo
    1. jeremyjh · · focus · HN ↗
      That is not the story here. The story is Neovim deleted data created by another program, on someone else's computer.

      I don't know if this story is true, but you can't defend it when taken at face value.

      1. johnnypangs · · focus · HN ↗
        Do you have a link to how this happened? From what I understand you’d have to point the undodir at the same place as vim for this to happen? It’s not this way by default and you have to put a copy of the exact same thing in your neovim vimrc right without understanding that it would do this?
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