How to go back ctrl z in vi vim

Question

In normal text editors  with all due respect to Vim  there is a shortcut Ctrl Z when you have done something nasty and want to return to the previous version of the text  Like BACK button in Word  I wonder how can you achieve this behaviour in Vim

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The answer  u   and many others  is in   vimtutor

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Just in normal mode press    u - undo  Ctrl   r - redo changes which were undone  undo the undos     Undo and Redo

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You can use the u button to undo the last modification   And Ctrl R to redo it    Read more about it at  http   vim wikia com wiki Undo and Redo

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Here is a trick though  You can map the Ctrl Z keys   This can be achieved by editing the  vimrc file  Add the following lines in the   vimrc  file   nnoremap  lt c-z gt   u lt CR gt         Avoid using this   inoremap  lt c-z gt   lt c-o gt  u lt CR gt    This may not the a preferred way  but can be used      Ctrl Z is used in Linux to suspend the ongoing program process

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I had the same problem right now and i solved it  You must not need it anymore so I write for others  if you use gvim on windows  you just add this in your  vimrc   VIMRUNTIME mswin vim behave mswin else just use imap

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On a mac you can also use command Z and that will go undo   I m not sure why  but sometimes it stops  and if your like me and vimtutor is on the bottom of that long list of things you need to learn  than u can just close the window and reopen it and should work fine

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