emacs-undo-fu VS evil-goggles

Try undo-fu, it's a thin wrapper on emacs built-in undo/redo but doesn't have this limitation.

Try undo-fu it was written to address exactly this problem.

Emacs has a good built-in undo function. And that one can be beefed up further with undo-tree --- which I used for some years --- or undo-fo --- which I use now ---.

I switched back from undo-tree to undo-fu, which re-uses the emacs undo-system instead of replacing it and makes it more intuitive to use while still preserving the full undo history. I sometimes miss the nice visualizations such as the tree and I didn't even know (or remember) the diff, but in 99% of cases I just need simple undo and most of the time I have git anyway to save intermediate states of my files.

There are packages that were written to add an explicit redo command, such as Undo Fu (https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/emacs-undo-fu) and Undo Tree (https://www.dr-qubit.org/undo-tree.html). Again, these packages are not needed in Emacs 28. That variable you found tells Evil which feature/package you want to use for an explicit redo command.

Had so many problems with this (once a month/week) and lost work... that I gave up and wrote undo-fu and undo-fu-session.

Did you try undo-fu?

is anyone aware of a plugin with functionality similar to this one in Emacs/evil: evil-goggles? Essentially the package provides a brief visual highlight of the text being modified/selected/etc on vim motions. It's a small quality of life utility that I find myself missing as a new Emacs expat working in neovim

I think this might be what you want https://github.com/edkolev/evil-goggles

Thanks, very useful, I think I will use it. This reminds me of evil-goggles, which highlights an evil-text-object before e.g. deleting it, but for undo. I'm aware of undo-tree, but moved to the more minimalistic undo-fu, which just uses the built-in emacs undo system instead of replacing it. And this package is a nice complement and awesome that it's non-blocking.