Temporarily edit a vim document without actually changing file

[Julius Hamilton]

Hey,

I was curious, is there any mode or plug-in in Vim where you could preview the result of a command, for example a global search and replace function, but by default the edit has not actually been written to file, and that requires a specific command to actually save the previewed changed?

Thank you,

Julius

[Magnus Woldrich]

That's the default behavior. Nothing is written to disk unless you tell it to.

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[jr]

hi,

On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 12:11, Julius Hamilton

<juliusha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was curious, is there any mode or plug-in in Vim where you could preview the result of a command,

if after executing a command the result is not what you expected, will
a simple "undo" not do?

> for example a global search and replace function, but by default the edit has not actually been written to file, and that requires a specific command to actually save the previewed changed?
>
> Thank you,
> Julius

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