I have a "weird" usage pattern in vim that I often use – or have to use, depending on how you view it.
What normally happens is this: I enter some text, do some editing, then remove a bit of text again. Some time in the future, I figure that this deleted bit of text would again be useful, so the following happens:
- Undo until the deleted text appears again
- Yank the text into some register
- Redo the undo history until I'm at the "current" version again
- Paste the yanked text
What I'm wondering is this: Is there a way to search for something in the undo history of a file, so I won't have to undo dozens (or hundreds) of undoes to get to the right version?
Note that I'm explicitly not looking for an "external" VCS like Git or Subversion – I'm trying to search for changes before even having to save a file to disk.
Best Answer
It looks like what you want to do is the exact use case for Gundo.