chunkundo.nvim

Smart undo chunking for Neovim

Neovim treats an entire insert session as one undo unit. This plugin breaks it into smaller chunks by time and word boundaries.

"Pressing u no longer wipes everything"
— Neovim User

"Peace of mind when editing long texts"
— Programmer

Features

Detects typing pauses (default 300ms) and splits undo blocks. Undo long edits incrementally.

Splits on space, tab, enter, punctuation. Fine-grained undo at character level.

Learns your typing pattern and adjusts interval automatically. Gets better as you use it.

u+5 (growing), u=12 (confirmed), etc. Real-time chunk status. Works with lualine.

Uses debounce, throttle, and batch. This plugin is a showcase for chillout.nvim.