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Marcin Wichary criticizes NeoVim for deleting undo history without warning

Marcin Wichary publishes essay on NeoVim's data deletion

1 Sep 27 10:45 AM · 1d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 4

Wichary, a UX designer at Google, Medium, and Figma, published an essay describing how NeoVim changed its undo file format without upgrading old files, causing data loss. When he raised an issue, he was told the persistent undo format was unstable and users should not rely on it.

“Neovim had changed the format of the undo files. It hadn't upgraded the old one. It hadn't used a different name for its undo files. It had just noticed the existence of a vim undo file, deleted it (losing all of the data in it) and replaced it with one that vim couldn't read.”

Marcin Wichary

Marcin WicharyMarcin Wichary UX designer and vim userNeoVim developers Open-source maintainersJef Raskin Computing pioneer and author

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted

    first by HN Best, 1d ago

  2. 1 outlet "They had no concept of a duty of care to their users."

    first by HN Frontpage, 1d ago

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