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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by justinnhli on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:50PM (#26188527)
> > (3) There is no visual indicator of where you are are in your undo/redo history.

> There might be plugins that somehow present this info in the interface.

The undotree vim plugin [1] does this, and gives both the file at the time as well as a diff of what changed.

[1]: https://github.com/mbbill/undotree

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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by dorian-graph on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:19AM (#26192341)
> undotree

I was going to mention this plugin. I haven't fully mastered quickly jumping around in it, but it's one of those things that when it's useful, it's VERY useful.

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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by justinnhli on Friday February 19, 2021 @06:52PM (#26199643)
Ditto. Unless I have to go back a lot of edits, I don't actually use the plugin that often. I've mapped my undo/redo keys to traverse the undo tree instead of the undo stack:

nnoremap u g-

nnoremap <C-r> g+

It takes a little bit of getting use to, but it takes care of most instance where I need a previous edit from a minute ago.

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