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1. fooblaster · 1790522817 · focus · HN ↗

   How does one use persistent undo in vim?

   1. fooblaster · 1790522930 · focus · HN ↗

      Talk about poor duty of care to users... been using him for 20 years and I have to enable it in my vimrc to take effect. So stupid. Why would I want this to be off?

      Such amazing design...

      " Enable persistent undo set undofile

      1. b0ringdeveloper · 1790532276 · focus · HN ↗

         I prefer persistent undo being off. I like being able to hold down u and revert to exactly how the file was before I opened it. (Maybe there's a better way to do this?) With persistent undo on, it just keeps going and going. And if I need long term source control, that's what git is for. With persistent undo off, it's like opening the file creates a checkpoint that I can get back to easily.

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