Re: Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Bickford
I should mention, I"m going to try Christian's plug-in. :) On Jan 19, 6:21 pm, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Mo, 18 Jan 2010, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > The amusing part was that you could watch as the editor replayed your > > > actions at an accelerated speed.  I don't recall that the sp

Re: Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Bickford
There are some good ideas here, I'll check them out. I wonder though - the recovery file exists already (if the vim session has gone away). Does it contain the change history, or just the final state? If it contains the change history, then it seems that there might be a way to use that in the ma

Re: Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Mo, 18 Jan 2010, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > The amusing part was that you could watch as the editor replayed your > > actions at an accelerated speed. I don't recall that the speed was > > adjustable, but that would be useful. […] While we are at that part, I started to read into the undo-

Re: Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-18 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Gary! On Mo, 18 Jan 2010, Gary Bickford wrote: > In other cases, when one either screwed up on a big change and wanted > to go back to just before the change, you could replay the transcript > to just before the big change, step forward and back one change at a > time, then stop the replay and

Re: Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-18 Thread Ben Fritz
On Jan 18, 9:56 am, Gary Bickford wrote: > Back in the day, on the Perq workstation, the text editor had a very > handy feature.  It retained a transcript file for every change made to > a file, from the time it was created.  The transcript could be > deleted, and then from then on it would reta

Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-18 Thread Gary Bickford
Has anyone built a session transcript plug-in for vim? I am aware of the macro capability, and the kill-ring plug in, and some other suggestions but I haven't seen anything quite like this: Back in the day, on the Perq workstation, the text editor had a very handy feature. It retained a transcri