Sparked by this discussion on r/vim, I put together a selective undo plugin for Vim.
This plugin is designed to operate undo on a visual selection, without touching the rest of the file.
Here's how it looks right now:
It was a pretty fun problem to solve.
It, however, is not complete. There are plenty of bugs, and a bit of limitations/quirkiness:
- Only operates on lines, not visual blocks
- It doesn't know when you run out of undo stacks, so repeatedly pressing undo can do weird things at the end of the stack.
- Probably a lot more
I'm open to pull requests and improving this, as I think this would be a really useful feature to have in my workflow.
That being said, this is based around a hack, so don't expect anything amazing from the code.
Enjoy!
MIT Licensed
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