Vim to reset to oldest change?

Question

I am a Vim user, and sometimes I made several changes to the file, but then I want to go back to the beginning and have to type: ua many times, so I ask you if there is a shortcut to get to the "oldest change"?

Hooray!

Rodrigo Alves Vieira http://rodrigo3n.com | @ Rodrigo3n

Answer 1

Cancel keystrokes only u; if you press : u, then there are too many keys (although this works, these are four keys instead of one). Usually I just hold on uand allow the auto-repeat trick (note what Ctrl+Ris the opposite uif you go too far).

You can reload the latest saved version to disk using :e!.

Answer 2

Does " :e!" (then return) work? It returns to the state of the edited file when it was last saved, or when you started, if you haven’t saved yet ...

Answer 3

:earlier. :help :ea

Answer 4

:e!, , . u :u, . :h undo-redo .

vim, undo_tags.

Answer 5

You know that you can use the number of retries for almost any VIM command, right?

My favorite way:

10000u

ten thousand cancellations.

Replaces me back in time, usually to where I opened the file. I see how things should be.

then

10000 ^ R

then thousand redos

And I'm at the end again.

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