Ah, thanks; that'd be it. undoreload is set by default to 10000, and my file is now over that many lines. I set it to -1 and that made it work.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:36:31 PM UTC-5, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > In my vimrc I have > > > > set undofile > > set undodir=~/.vimundo > > -- thus I am almost always able to undo changes done in Vim even if I > close a file and reopen it. One other benefit I've enjoyed for a while is > the behavior where, if I have a file open in Vim, and some program besides > Vim modifies the file, not only does Vim prompt me about whether I want to > load the up-to-date version of the file, but even if I do so I can still > press u to undo the *external* changes. However, today I noticed this isn't > working anymore on my Windows machine (I will check on my Mac and Linux > later). > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know how I can make it behave the old way again? > > Check the help for the 'undoreload' option; perhaps you're hitting the > limits there. > > Question for the list, :help 'undoreload' says "The save only happens when > this options is negative or when the number of lines is smaller than the > value of this option". > > Does that mean you can set it to -1 to make it always save without any > line-number limit? > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
