# undo-tree

8 Hacker News commenters recommended undo-tree and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Emacs package that keeps the full undo history and shows it as a tree you can browse, with documentation people praise.

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- [Eglot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/eglot.md): 16 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "undo-tree", https://hackerapproved.com/p/undo-tree/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).