Show HN: Text undo that doesn't lose your edit history

11 cousin_it 4 6/2/2025, 2:54:54 PM vladimirslepnev.me ↗

Comments (4)

leephillips · 1d ago
This is built in to vim.
Bjartr · 1d ago
For those interested, here's the Vim docs for the undo tree

https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_32.html

cousin_it · 1d ago
My approach was linear, not a tree. The innovation (a small one) is how to make linear actually feel kinda ok, but at the same time not lose work.
leephillips · 1d ago
If I understand correctly, the vim undo tree is a superset of your approach: in vim you can go forward and backward in time, seeing all versions of the file, and need not explicitly deal with the tree.