Ben Schmidt schrieb:
> Hi, Chip and other script developers,
>
> I have an old Vim 6 lying around I use in 'emergencies' and discovered that
> it
> chokes on the hilinks plugin and others. The problem seems to be the :for
> command.
> Vim 6, it seems, is unable to even skip over it when it's in an if
> version>=700 or
> such conditional, but throws up errors such as 'return not in function' or
> 'endif
> without if'. Perhaps it sees the :endfor as ending some other block since it
> doesn't know about :for. Why it would do this, I don't know, but it seems to
> do
> something like that.
>
> I don't know if there's a workaround, i.e. a way you can rewrite the plugin
> to
> still work on Vim 6 minus a few features. It would be nice if there were. But
> in
> lieu of that, I think scripts that use :for will need to :finish prematurely
> for
> Vim < 7, as simply putting the :for in a conditional on the version doesn't
> work.
>
> Ben.
" This works with Vim 6.4, but not with Vim 7.1:
func! Foo()
echo "endfor is endfunction"
endfor
call Foo()
" no error (with Vim6) if :endfor occurs outside a function.
--
Andy
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