On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:13:37AM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Charles Campbell wrote:
>
> > Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > >The problem of changing something like this is that all scripts that are
> > >included in the release need to be checked for effects. And there are
> > >lots of scripts now. I wouldn't be surprised if, for example, the netrw
> > >plugin stops working properly.
> >
> > In perusing netrw, I believe that all the netrw usages of
> > exists("*func") give exists() a full function
> > name; ie. they don't depend on its just being a prefix. So, I expect
> > that netrw should work ok with
> > such a change.
>
> Bad example... I meant that there are scripts that are too big to
> check.
I tried
:vimgrep /exists[^)]*\*/ $VIMRUNTIME/**/*.vim
:cl
and found that there are 111 matches. If all we are worried about is
exists("*<string>") where <string> contains non-'isk' characters, then I
am willing to check them. I bet there are very few.
HTH --Benji Fisher
