Added ":earlier 1f" and ":later 1f".

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Bram Moolenaar
2010-06-27 05:18:54 +02:00
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@ -9,16 +9,40 @@ Vim provides multi-level undo. If you undo a few changes and then make a new
change you create a branch in the undo tree. This text is about moving
through the branches.
|32.1| Numbering changes
|32.2| Jumping around the tree
|32.3| Time travelling
|32.1| Undo up to a file write
|32.2| Numbering changes
|32.3| Jumping around the tree
|32.4| Time travelling
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Table of contents: |usr_toc.txt|
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*32.1* Numbering changes
*32.1* Undo up to a file write
Sometimes you make several changes, and then discover you want to go back to
when you have last written the file. You can do that with this command: >
:earlier 1f
The "f" stands for "file" here.
You can repeat this command to go further back in the past. Or use a count
diferent from 1 to go back faster.
If you go back too far, go forward again with: >
:later 1f
Note that these commands really work in time sequence. This matters if you
made changes after undoing some changes. It's explained in the next section.
Also note that we are talking about text writes here. For writing the undo
information in a file see |undo-persistence|.
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*32.2* Numbering changes
In section |02.5| we only discussed one line of undo/redo. But it is also
possible to branch off. This happens when you undo a few changes and then
@ -66,7 +90,7 @@ it. But sometimes by the number of one of the changes below it, especially
when moving up in the tree, so that you know which change was just undone.
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*32.2* Jumping around the tree
*32.3* Jumping around the tree
So how do you get to "one two" now? You can use this command: >
@ -114,7 +138,7 @@ Using |:undo| is useful if you know what change you want to jump to. |g-| and
You can type a count before |g-| and |g+| to repeat them.
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*32.3* Time travelling
*32.4* Time travelling
When you have been working on text for a while the tree grows to become big.
Then you may want to go to the text of some minutes ago.
@ -133,10 +157,10 @@ seconds with this command: >
:earlier 10s
Depending on how much time you took for the changes you end up at a certain
position in the tree. The |:earlier| command argument can be "m" for minutes
and "h" for hours. To go all the way back use a big number: >
position in the tree. The |:earlier| command argument can be "m" for minutes,
"h" for hours and "d" for days. To go all the way back use a big number: >
:earlier 10h
:earlier 100d
To travel forward in time again use the |:later| command: >
@ -144,6 +168,11 @@ To travel forward in time again use the |:later| command: >
The arguments are "s", "m" and "h", just like with |:earlier|.
If you want even more details, or want to manipulate the information, you can
use the |undotree()| function. To see what it returns: >
:echo undotree()
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