On 04-Apr-09 22:21, Matt Wozniski wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Yakov Lerner wrote:
>> If vimscript functions had remark "Added in vim7.1.129", it would be useful.
>> For example, if you want to know how portable the script is.
>
> Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but I keep copies of vim
> 6.4.10 and 7.0.0 around just so that I can look at older runtimefiles
> and docs and test scripts in older vims.
>
> ~Matt
I keep old Vim versions (since 6.0), too, and grep the docs for the first
occurrence of a built-in function name. (But I also use these old Vims for
compatibility testing of my scripts.) I totally agree with Yakov that this
would
be very helpful for script writers. I'd love to see these remarks below each
function's help text, with a formatting similar to those {not in Vi} and {not
available when compiled without the +whatever feature} remarks, e.g. {since
7.0}
or {optional third argument added with 7.1.42}.
Manually researching this for all built-in functions looks tedious, but maybe
someone can come up with a throwaway script that extracts the relevant info
from
the patch info / CVS history / git / ...?
-- regards, ingo
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