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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by b3n on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:56PM (#26199135)
> doing a lot of undos and redos makes the history quickly unwieldy to navigate

Are you aware of the `undo-only` (and `undo-redo`) functions? They make it a breeze to navigate even the most complex undo history.

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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by jolmg on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:37PM (#26200067)
Actually, I wasn't. Thanks for that.

(undo-redo) doesn't seem to be defined in stock Emacs, but undo-tree defines (undo-tree-redo), which does the needful.

My comment was more about lamenting the defaults in comparison with vim's, but it's true that it doesn't take much configuration to make it much better.

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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by im3w1l on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:56AM (#26202762)
undo-only doesn't have a keybind which makes it inconvient to use many times in a row. You could define one yourself I suppose, but at that point why not just get undo-tree?
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