Vim command to reset to the oldest change?

I am a Vim user and sometimes I made several changes in a file but then want to get back to the beginning and have to type :u a lot of times, so I ask you if there is a shortcut to get to the开发者_运维百科 "oldest change"?

Cheers!

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

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The keystroke to undo is just u; if you're pressing :u then that's too many keys (although it works, it's four keys instead of one). Usually I would just hold down u and let auto-repeat do the trick (note that Ctrl+R is the opposite of u if you go too far)..

You can reload from the last saved version on disk using :e!.

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Does ':e!' (followed by return) work for you? It gets back to the state of the edited file when it was last saved, or when you started if you've not saved yet...

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You also have the :earlier command. :help :ea

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Using :e! will get you back to the oldest change as saved. Aside from typing just u instead of :u, also see :h undo-redo for help on all the undo commands.

Other options might be use a vim plugin, such as undo_tags.

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You know you can use repeat counts on just about any VIM command, right?

My favorite way:

10000u

ten-thousand-undos.

Zips me back in time, usually to where I opened the file. I can see how things USED to be.

then

10000^R

then-thousand-redos

And I'm back at the end again.

You're welcome.