On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Spencer Collyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:38:18 +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote: >> >> On 05/04/09 04:33, George V. Reilly wrote: >> > >> > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Tony Mechelynck >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > VimL scripting was introduced in Vim 5.0, eleven years ago, >> > according to >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)#History. Personally, >> > I wouldn't expend more than a few minutes ensuring compatibility >> > with Vim 6.0 (2001), especially if you need dictionaries and other >> > 7.0 features. >> >> Didn't legacy Vi have exrc files? And how were they written if it >> wasn't in what could be recognizably seen as what evolved to become >> vimscript? >> > > IIRC, Vi's exrc files were just lists of Ex commands.
Pretty much just :map and :set. Look at the code in $VIMRUNTIME/macros and shudder. -- /George V. Reilly [email protected] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
