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This is fine because "undo to beginning" isn't a single action. Each time this loop runs, the user spends more and more time mashing undo to get back to the beginning. The number of actions in the history is only increasing by a constant amount per user action.
https://vimtricks.com/p/vimtrick-time-travel-in-vim/
:earlier 3 – Undo the last 3 changes
:earlier 5m – Go back to the state of the file 5 minutes ago
:later 2 – After undoing something, redo the next 2 changes
:later 1h – Travel forward through the change history 1 hour
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There is a sidebar widget. But it starts merged in the File Explorer view, and you need to drag it over from there to the sidebar to make it independent - https://stackoverflow.com/a/71522634 The widget is called "Timeline". > The cool thing with IntelliJ is if you accidentally deleted a file you can just touch a blank version of the file and the history comes back. Not sure if VS Code does that yet. VS Code does kee…
Fantastic! Thank you so much. I think it's a fairly common situation that people using programming tools (VS Code, git, vim etc) can go for years without realizing there is a built-in feature that can solve exactly a problem they always struggled to solve. I'm not sure how to surface that sort of functionality in the tool, but I'm glad HN is here to point it out. One similarly cool thing I learned in a recent comment…
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Yes! Having regional undo is super useful sometimes. I switched from emacs to vim a long time ago, but still miss this feature (although not enough to go searching to find an equivalent vim plug in I guess). Lazy web?
Well if you want to return to Emacs, I can attest as a former long-time vim user that the emulation layers for vim modes in Emacs are fantastic! They're really the only good part of vim, as the configuration language was always a bit less desirable than elisp, imo.
This is exactly how undo works in Emacs out of the box. Personally, I prefer to install the undo-tree package and manually browse through the tree of undo paths. I'm not sure why this author finds a tree unacceptable for this purpose.
He literally says why at the top of the post. People find it too complicated.
Meet MediaBand (2/5) - UnDo Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E-Sc9XafmE
>The second of two interactive music videos on Canter Technology's Meet MediaBand CD-ROM, UnDo Me could very well be considered the "Choose Your Own Adventure" of music videos - in that MediaBand's lead singer, Kelly Gabriel, has to choose from one of four different relationships. YOU help Kelly decide which one to try, and navigate her way through each relationship.
>At the end of each chorus, you are asked to make a branching decision based on whether Kelly should be passive (ice) or aggressive (fire) with the guy she's going out with. Things not turning out well for her? At any time you could "UnDo the past" and choose a different guy, or even jump back to a certain point in the relationship and change your decisions.
>Four separate videos were produced for each relationship (concluding in a total of 16 possible outcomes), connected together with an intro, a home chorus and reverse/"UnDoing" sections. As you could probably tell each section has a different musical style, reflecting the mood and personalities of the relationship that section represents. A version of the song can also be found as a separate CD audio track on the Meet MediaBand CD-ROM.
Meet MediaBand by Marc Canter (1994):
Vim supports this out of the box with :earlier and :later
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VS Code has that feature too, but only for individual files.
I wish VS Code would expand on that feature, coming from IntelliJ. It's really annoying that you need to type the name of the file you want to see the local history of, even when it's the currently active file in the editor. There should be a sidebar widget for it that's active for whatever the current file is. The cool thing with IntelliJ is if you accidentally deleted a file you can just touch a blank version of th…