Persist and Synchroize VIM undo History using Dropbox

It's extremely useful to - Have a virtually unlimited undo history, and - Have it persisted even after exiting VIM, and - Better, even have it synchronized across all your working machines using Dropbox.

Here is the .vimrc snippet I used to do the trick.

" Persist undo
set undofile
"maximum number of changes that can be undone
set undolevels=9999 
"maximum number lines to save for undo on a buffer reload
set undoreload=9999 

" If have Dropbox installed, create a undo dir in it
if isdirectory(expand("$HOME/Dropbox/"))
    silent !mkdir -p $HOME/Dropbox/.vimundo >/dev/null 2>&1
    set undodir=$HOME/Dropbox/.vimundo//
else
    " Otherwise, keep them in home
    silent !mkdir -p $HOME/.vimundo >/dev/null 2>&1
    set undodir=$HOME/.vimundo//
end

Note the double slash after the undodir, it tells VIM to name the undo file using the full path of the editing file, so no naming collision will occur.