[SOLVED] Vi/vim: undoing after a mistake has made vi cancel my changes to the buffer.

stf92 · 12-15-2010, 06:04 PM

Hi: perhaps I've been typing for 20m and, in command mode, I accidentally press a key that undoes all of my work. What would be one of the more elementary undo commands? Regards.

GlennsPref · 12-15-2010, 06:31 PM

u

Lower case u undoes last change

From the Vi Cheat Sheet.

dl the .pdf here...

http://www.kcomputing.com/vi.html

Hope this helps, Regards Glenn

stf92 · 12-15-2010, 06:39 PM

It's been very kind of you, Glenn. Greetings,

Enrique.

markush · 12-16-2010, 02:48 AM

Hi stf92,

<CTRL>+<r> = redo, this means the "undo" are undone.

One can also leave vim immediately without saving with :q! or ZZ

Markus

stf92 · 12-16-2010, 03:08 AM

I see. About :q! I already knew. Also about :qa and :qa! (quit all files). It's a great thing that vim's help files, whose location vim has the kindness of pointing out, are plain ascii text files, by the way. Ajd one can even use grep to skim through them. Thank you, Markus.