With regular u/<C-r> Vim echoes some information about the undo state, e.g. 1 change; before #11 12:30:44. That message isn't displayed if the undo comes from the normal command, e.g. exe 'norm! u'. feedkeys('u', 'n') does display the message, so this is my proposed fix:
With regular
u
/<C-r>
Vim echoes some information about the undo state, e.g.1 change; before #11 12:30:44
. That message isn't displayed if the undo comes from the normal command, e.g.exe 'norm! u'
.feedkeys('u', 'n')
does display the message, so this is my proposed fix: