I’m an Emacs newbie (using Doom Emacs with GNU Emacs 29.1). I came from vim, and battling with undo there was crazy enough, but I won using this:

inoremap  u
inoremap  u
inoremap  u
inoremap  u
inoremap  u
inoremap  u
inoremap  u
inoremap , ,u
inoremap . .u
inoremap ( (u
inoremap [ [u
inoremap = =u
inoremap \" \"u
inoremap  u
inoremap  u

Also, I had autogroup that breaks undo every 4 seconds.

Basically, this configuration breaks undo on almost every possible type command, every Spacebar, Enter, comma, bracket, moving up, down, everything. This is because I hate when undo deletes the whole screen of text.

How do I replicate this in Emacs? I read this, but it doesn’t say what is considered a “recent change”.

  • chesheersmile@fediverser.communick.devOPBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This way of modal editing is fine when you write source code.

    I write texts, articles. Most of the time I spend in Insert mode. And when I press u I see a wall of text disappeared.

    • thetemp_@fediverser.communick.devBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      And when I press u I see a wall of text disappeared.

      Maybe Vim let’s things go too far between undos.

      I write a lot of text too, but I’ve never seen Emacs’s undo remove a whole wall of text that was typed by hand. If it was inserted from the kill-ring, sure.

      Occasionally, it’ll undo a few more keystrokes than I’d prefer, but that’s rare. In that case, you can just undo the undo by pressing “C-g C-/”. And then remove only the text you wanted to get rid of.

      • oantolin@fediverser.communick.devBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Maybe Vim let’s things go too far between undos?

        By default Vim makes each foray into insert mode undo in a single step. So you have total control over how much gets undone each time: just exit and renter insert mode if you want more granular undo.