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Re:Ten Years of Vim by johnboyer on Sunday May 20, 2018 @10:23PM (#17115801)
>Vim IMproved

Oh, so you are using an improved version of Vi IMproved? ;)

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Re:Ten Years of Vim by bArray on Monday May 21, 2018 @04:34AM (#17116965)
Aha yeah, it's a recursive improvement on itself, like the GNU acronym!
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Re:Ten Years of Vim by ibotty on Monday May 21, 2018 @12:28PM (#17119546)
That's neovim, right?
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Re:Ten Years of Vim by mercer on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @10:43AM (#17126211)
or Spacemacs
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Re:Ten Years of Vim by imiric on Monday May 21, 2018 @01:43AM (#17116382)
Emacs + evil-mode, presumably. :)
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Re:Ten Years of Vim by tom_mellior on Monday May 21, 2018 @04:12AM (#17116879)
I need to use Emacs rather than vim for some things (Proof General, mostly), and I was surprised how well evil-mode works. It's only undo that I don't get. From vim I'm used to be able to undo as many editing steps as I want. In evil-mode, I find that if I type "u" too many times, it runs out of undos to do and starts undoing the undos (i.e., it starts redoing things I want to go away).

Also, search uses different word separators from vim: In vim "foo_bar" is a single word that will be skipped by pressing "w". But in evil-mode the "_" is a word separator, so the above is three words. That breaks my flow every time.

Some of this might not be due to vanilla evil but due to the fact that I'm using it through Spacemacs.

This is my two cents. If by any chance anyone would know off the top of their head how to fix these, I'd be greatful.

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Re:Ten Years of Vim by triska on Monday May 21, 2018 @08:15AM (#17117801)
For linear undo and undo branches, undo-tree.el is required:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UndoTree

Regarding "_", you can set up Emacs to treat _ as word constituent by modifying the syntax table. For example:

    (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")
For more information, please see:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sy...

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Re:Ten Years of Vim by tom_mellior on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:08AM (#17118088)
Awesome, thanks! I'll try these.
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Re:Ten Years of Vim by JdeBP on Monday May 21, 2018 @07:28AM (#17117562)
Not necessarily. It could be NeoVIM. (-:
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