That's how you undo and redo changes in Vim. Which means press 3 first and the in quick succession press and hold Ctrl and press r key. For example, to redo the last 3 undone changes, use 3Ctrl+r. You may also specify a number to do multiple redo at once. You can press Ctrl+r multiple times to redo the changes one by one.Īs you can see in the screenshot below, press Ctrl+r two times removes the line 3 and line 6 again. Which means Press and hold the ctrl key and press r at the same time. You go to command mode by pressing the Esc key. You can change your mind about the undo after all. So, after performing an undo with 'u', pressing Ctrl-R will undo the undo. Pressing Ctrl-R (redo) reverses the preceding command. This is one of the ways vim is different than vi in vi, pressing u twice undoes the undo itself. 3 and u one after another in quick succession. In vim, pressing u multiple times continues to undo previous edits. If you want to undo multiple changes at once, you can specify the number with the u key.įor example, if you want to undo the last 3 changes, type 3u i.e. To undo multiple changes, you can keep on pressing u key. If I press the u key once more, it will undo the next change, which was deleting line 3. Vim even shows the information about the undone change at the bottom. As you can see, it brings back the line number 6 first. To undo the changes, I go to the command mode by pressing Esc key and then press the u key. I have this file where I have deleted line 3 and 6 in the same order. When you undo it, the last change gets undone first. If you press gg in normal mode, vim will move the cursor to the top. You can scroll up and down using Ctrl+u and Ctrl+d. Pressing H gets the cursor to the top of the screen, M to the middle, and L to the bottom.
Whenever you make any change, it gets added in the stack. Use 0 for navigating to the beginning of a line and for moving to the end. '' backspace in Visual mode deletes selection vnoremapVim maintains the record of changes in a stack in LIFO (last in first out) format. It cannot be simpler than this, can it? To remember, u stands for undo and r stands for redo. Press the Ctrl+R keys to redo the changes.Go to command mode by pressing Esc key.Made a mistake while editing a file with Vim? Don't worry, you can undo the changes in Vim and if you want, you can redo the changes as well.