Well, very few people are still using 8.3 systems.
So, that is no longer a problem, but it explains the choice
to go with three letter suffixes. Even today, most of the
Vim documentation (e.g. doc/options.txt) uses 8.3 names.
And yes, newer documentation is not limited to 8.3 character
names (e.g. pi_getscript.txt).
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:08 PM scootergrisen <scootergri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Den 28-06-2018 kl. 21:39 skrev Antonio Giovanni Colombo:
> > I think the reason was to use two letters to identifiy the language, and
> > keep the third one fixed ("x") because in the old day of MS-DOS 8.3
> > names, the suffixes were usually of three letters. I have no problem at
> > all with this. All boils down to "easy to manage".
>
> Ok so it comes from 8.3 but would anything bad happen if it was updated
> now to allow longer file names?
>
> The lang/menu* files uses longer file names so do they not work on a
> system that use 8.3?
>
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