On 23:07 Fri 03 Jan , Ben Fritz wrote: > On Friday, January 3, 2014 11:09:44 PM UTC-6, Chandra Amarasingham wrote: > > > > I am a fairly novice user of vim. One thing I worry about is > > > > accidentally changing something on the file without being aware of it by > > > > accidental keystrokes, etc. > > > > > > > > Is there an easy way of seeing all the changes which have been made to > > > > the current file being edited? a "live" diff so to speak? > > > > > > There is a command included in the vimrc_example.vim file distributed with > Vim, called :DiffOrig. > > This command will open a scratch buffer containing the current on-disk file > contents, and diff it with your current unsaved buffer. Then you can see all > the changes you've made. > > Alternatively, there are also plugins that just let you know what lines have > changed, for example, http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3052 > for changes since you started editing, or > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4487 for changes since the > last commit in your version control system. >
This is not directly related but it might be helpful as well: there is also gundo plugin which shows undo tree in a nice format. http://sjl.bitbucket.org/gundo.vim/ Best regards, Marcin -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
