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simnalamburt/vim-mundo

:christmas_tree: Vim undo tree visualizer
Source code at GitHub https://simnalamburt.github.io/vim-mundo
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vim-mundo

Section titled “vim-mundo”

A Vim plugin to visualizes the Vim [undo tree].

  • [Official webpage]
  • [Introductory Video]

How is this different than other plugins?

Section titled “How is this different than other plugins?”

Mundo is a fork of [Gundo], and it has bunch of improvements.

  • Several new features:
    • Ability to search undo history using /.
    • An ‘in line’ diff mode.
    • Navigation keys J and K to move thru written undos.
  • Merged upstream [pull requests] !:
    • [Fix paths with spaces][pr-29]
    • [Display timestamps in ISO format][pr-28]
    • [Real time updates][i-40]
    • [Show changes saved to disk][i-34]
    • [Python NoneType errors][i-38]
    • [open vimdiff of current buffer][i-28]
    • [Add global_disable option][i-33]
    • [Reduce verbosity][i-31]
  • [Neovim] support

What’s your further plan?

Section titled “What’s your further plan?”
  • Make faster
  • Automated test

Requirements

Section titled “Requirements”
  • Vim ≥ 7.3 with +python3 or +python options
  • [Neovim] with [pynvim] installed
  • Python ≥ 2.4

Recommended vim settings:

" Enable persistent undo so that undo history persists across vim sessions
set undofile
set undodir=~/.vim/undo

Installation

Section titled “Installation”

It is recommended to use one of the popular plugin managers for Vim. There are many and you probably already have a preferred one, but a few examples for your copy-and-paste convenience:

Pathogen

Section titled “Pathogen”
$ git clone https://github.com/simnalamburt/vim-mundo ~/.vim/bundle/mundo.vim

Vundle

Section titled “Vundle”
Plugin 'simnalamburt/vim-mundo'

NeoBundle

Section titled “NeoBundle”
NeoBundle 'simnalamburt/vim-mundo'

Vim-Plug

Section titled “Vim-Plug”
Plug 'simnalamburt/vim-mundo'
Section titled “Manual (not recommended)”

[Download]!(releases) the plugin and extract it in ~/.vim/ (or %PROGRAMFILES%/Vim/vimfiles on Windows).

Unit tests

Section titled “Unit tests”

Tests unit tests can be run with [nose] !:

Terminal window
cd autoload
nosetests

vim-mundo is primarily distributed under the terms of the [GNU General Public License, version 2] or any later version. See [COPYRIGHT] for details.

[pull requests] !: https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim/pulls [undo tree] !: https://neovim.io/doc/user/undo.html#undo-tree [Gundo] !: https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim [Official webpage] !: https://simnalamburt.github.io/vim-mundo [Introductory Video] !: https://simnalamburt.github.io/vim-mundo/screencast.mp4 [Neovim] !: https://neovim.io [pynvim] !: https://github.com/neovim/pynvim [pr-29] !: https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim/pull/29 [pr-28] !: https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim/pull/28 [i-34] !: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/gundo.vim/issue/34/show-changes-that-were-saved-onto-disk [i-38] !: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/gundo.vim/issue/38/python-errors-nonetype-not-iterable-with [i-40] !: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/gundo.vim/issue/40/feature-request-live-reload [i-28] !: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/gundo.vim/issue/28/feature-request-open-vimdiff-of-current#comment-3129981 [i-33] !: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/gundo.vim/issue/33/let-g-gundo_disable-0-is-not-available [i-31] !: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/gundo.vim/issue/31/reduce-verbosity-of-the-list [nose] !: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ [GNU General Public License, version 2] !: LICENSE [COPYRIGHT] !: COPYRIGHT