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

384 points · 346 comments · jandeboevrie

RVuRnvbM2e · 1790528069 · focus · HN ↗
Undo files and persistent undo are not meant to work that way. They are just persistent across process restarts. That's all.
They live in ~/.cache which is defined as "user-specific non-essential (cached) data".
Despite this user's impressive résumé, they simply misunderstood the feature.
1. jorams · 1790545522 · focus · HN ↗
  Unless something changed very recently neither vim nor neovim defaults to storing persistent undo files in ~/.cache. It's application state, not cached data.
  The undodir option in vim defaults to the directory of the file, and in neovim it defaults to ~/.local/state/nvim/undo/.

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