Thanks for the clarification. I guess what threw me was that the backupext documentation says that only "/\*?[|<>" are illegal. So according to that a semicolon should be good :)
On 11/29/2016 4:11 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Jeff wrote: > >> I think there might be an issue with the backupext option after the >> latest patches were applied. My Vim version is version 8.0 which >> includes patches 1 through 104. >> >> I use to be able to set backupext with "set backupext=;1". Now I get a >> E474 error. >> >> E474: Invalid argument: backupext=;1 >> >> Any ideas? > > This was done intentionally to avoid weird characters to end up in > option values. I suppose it would be OK to use a semicolon if you > really want to. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
