Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Sa, 14 Okt 2017, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > Patch 8.0.1189
> > Problem: E172 is not actually useful, it's only on Unix anyway.
> > Solution: Remove the check and the error.
> > Files: src/ex_docmd.c, runtime/doc/message.txt
>
> Doesn't that break compatibility? I wonder how many scripts do something
> like `:exe ":e" fnameescape...`
>
> runtime/syntax/colortest.vim does that.
That should still work, backslashes have the same meaning. Only the
check and the error were removed.
What did change that previously for ":e a b c" you would get an error,
now it will try to open the file "a b c", which will most likely edit an
empty buffer.
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