| Tip 8 | Chunk Your Undos |
In other text editors, invoking the undo command after typing a few words might revert the last typed word or character. However, in Vim we can control the granularity of the undo command.
The u key triggers the undo command, which reverts the most recent change. A change could be anything that modifies the text in the document. That includes commands triggered from Normal, Visual, and Command-Line modes, but a change could also encompass any text entered (or deleted) in Insert mode. So we could also say that i{insert some text}<Esc> constitutes a change.
In nonmodal text editors, triggering the undo command after typing a few words could do one of two things. It could undo the last character that was typed. Or, more ...
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