Comment by RVuRnvbM2e
6 hours ago
It's the part where you upgraded and apparently failed to read the release notes.
Or in the OPs case, installed a totally different application and was surprised by an incompatibility.
6 hours ago
It's the part where you upgraded and apparently failed to read the release notes.
Or in the OPs case, installed a totally different application and was surprised by an incompatibility.
Nobody should have to read release notes to avoid data loss; there should never be a change such that someone who hasn't read the release notes (or missed a detail in reading them) to avoid such a problem.
You're holding others to a standard that you yourself haven't adhered to. Please go read the release notes. No mention anywhere that old undo data will be deleted.
https://neovim.io/news/2021/07/
Differences from Vim are also documented, but this issue isn't mentioned there either.
https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff/
Also, what's up with people claiming that the undo files are stored under ~/.cache? That's completely made up. Or that persistent undo doesn't persist edit history, against what the docs say. Utter nonsense.
https://neovim.io/doc/user/undo/#_5.-undo-persistence
Users don't expect their editor to cause data loss after a routine `brew update`. Blaming users for that is unreasonable.