Naughty undo-tree

Mon Nov 10 23:27:22 CET 2014

You can use builtin undo system with Evil.

FWIW, I've only seen that undo-tree bug when using undo in region.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg at posteo.de> writes:
>
> > I think there are two issues:
> >
> > - the variable size of undo steps
> > - the error when redoing.
>
> Yes, but one makes the other more serious.
>
> > The first issue arises from the fact that Evil considers anything that
> > happens from entering insert mode until leaving it as one edit.
>
> That was I thought until I observed, multiple times, how undo worked one
> char at a time after writing some text. No mode change, no cursor
> movement, just writing text and then undoing.
>
> I'm not so sure about this, but I also observed how undo removes
> multiple chunks of text that were written with mode changes and cursor
> movements in between.
>
> [snip]
>
> > The second issue is the error that you're observing when redoing.  I
> > never encountered this problem.
>
> This happens every other month, but it hurts.
>
> There are other problems on undo-tree, although not of the data-loss
> type. It looks quite unreliable to me. IIRC the author explained on
> emacs-devel that some characteristics of Emacs' undo implementation made
> things difficult for him.
>
> I still don't know if not using undo-tree has consequences on Evil's
> behavior, apart from going back to traditional Emacs undo features, but
> let's assume that there is no problem, so I'll ditch undo-tree.
>
>
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