On 6/5/07, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would dearly like to be able to replace ex by a more > comfortable older version > eg > not wiping image of recent changes on screen > on exit.I'm not 100% sure how to do this one. This is likely a terminal thing. Perhaps you can monkey with the settings as described in :help xterm-save-screen where it sounds like the "NOTE 2" at the bottom of that section describes what you want: :set t_ti= t_te= I'm ambivalent about this option, as sometimes I want it, and sometimes I don't, and I don't think about it until I quit and find that it's not what I wanted. Some machines I use preserve the original screen (using the alternate screen for vim), and some don't. I've just learned to shrug that one off :) > "undo" to "undo" just the last change by > default - not all changes since start of session. Vim7's undo is mind-blowingly more powerful than any other software I've used (except maybe VCS software such as RCS/Subversion/Mercurial/etc). It shouldn't undo all changes since the start of the session (assuming by "session", you mean since opening the file). Vim certainly allows you to return to the old-school way of doing things, as described at :help undo-two-ways and following section for how Vim treats undo blocks as well. > etc Without more details on this "etc", it's hard to point you in the right direction. However, this mailing list is a friendly place, so if you encounter more questions, feel free to ask them here and the list will try and help you out. I get accused of being the list's resident Ex junkie, so hopefully I can help. :) I'm likely one of the scant few who still wants Vim to support true open mode (":help :open"). Not urgently, but there are times it would have been handy. Fortunately, I've got some older versions of vi that do support it for those scarse occasions I want it. -tim
Is :help undo where we can get information on Vim7's undo? I remember reading about how it was all awesome and stuff, but I haven't gotten a chance to actually try to use it yet. -- -fREW
