Travelling by Clock with :earlier

Nobody thinks in change numbers#

You think in time: “it worked before lunch”, “I broke this twenty minutes ago”.

:earlier 1m         " the file as it was a minute ago
:later 1m           " roll forward again
:earlier 30s
:earlier 2h

It does not matter how many changes happened in between.

Counting, when you do want to#

:earlier 10         " ten changes back
:earlier 999        " as far back as the history goes
:later 999          " all the way to the newest state

File writes#

:earlier 1f moves back one file write rather than one change — useful when you save at meaningful checkpoints.