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Re: [ELPA] propose to add vundo.el to ELPA
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Yuan Fu |
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Re: [ELPA] propose to add vundo.el to ELPA |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Apr 2022 21:20:35 -0700 |
> On Apr 4, 2022, at 8:41 PM, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> wrote:
>
> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I wrote vundo.el a while ago and it’s now quite stable. It displays
>> the undo history in a tree form like undo-tree. Unlike undo-tree,
>> vundo doesn’t require you to replace undo commands and track changes
>> itself, rather it generates the tree fresh from ‘buffer-undo-list’. Do
>> you think vundo would be a good addition to ELPA?
>
> Tried it out shortly. Looks very useful and cool and easy to use and
> well done.
>
Thanks for you kind words and suggestions!
> Some minor comments:
>
> - Maybe mention the arrow keys in the introduction (that they work)?
>
> - In undo-tree, one had to select a different branch before one could
> "walk" into it. For vundo it's the other way round: you first have to
> select the first element of the active branch, after the root, and only
> after that you can activate a different (sibling) branch (or did
> undo-tree add virtual roots or so?). Dunno what interface approach I
> like more. But because I had tried undo-tree, your approach feels
> unfamiliar. Dunno how others see that (AFAIR, undo-tree felt strange
> in the same aspect when I had tried it first, too=.
I now added further explanations.
> - Question: here in the comment:
>
> ;; update. Vundo catches up the next time you invoke any command:
> ;; instead of performing that command, it updates the tree.
>
> do you mean "next time you invoke any _vundo_ command"? Otherwise I
> don't understand the sentence - buffer changes happen via commands - so
> what command actually do update?
Yes, any vundo command. Pressing f/b/n/p will not move in history but update
the tree.
>
> - And here are some typos I think (without warranty, I'm not perfectly
> speaking English):
Thanks, applied!
Yuan
Re: [ELPA] propose to add vundo.el to ELPA, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/04/05