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		Groxx on Feb 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim After 11 Years The "step back in time" feature is sort of gimmicky, but does mean you can rewind even Curses terminal applications. Rarely actually useful, but it has saved me a huge amount of hassle a few times.

mmahemoff on Feb 19, 2013 [–]

Vim also has history via the undo-branches feature. e.g. ":earlier 15m" to go back 15 minutes.

Nick_C on Feb 20, 2013 | [–]

And the Gundo plugin extends that even more with a history graph and preview pane that shows diffs. A must-have plugin for me.

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