* Suresh Govindachar on Saturday, May 06, 2006 at 15:06:27 -0700:
> > Christian Ebert wrote:
> > I wanted to use the exists clause to fork a script
> > according to the current vim version, and this works
> > in other cases.
>
> Bram explained the issue with endfor. I am curious as
> to why you don't fork -- based not on test for existence
> of :for but -- based on test for version directly?
Good question.
Because I am to lazy to look up which new feature belongs to
which version? ;-)
Perhaps I wasn't clear, and the subject is a bit misleading.
I tested with v:version first, and when I got an error I tried to
narrow down the issue and then found out that even checking
exists(":for") or exists(":endfor") does /not/ give an error.
Only the loop itself breaks the script.
I couldn't make head or tail out of the fact that the fork based
on the very command itself did work (as I could see the vim7
stuff working) but that I still got a parsing error with vim6.
But, on a more general level, what is the recommended way to do
such forks? Is forking by v:version faster? Better style? -- I
thought to make a very specific fork isn't that bad an idea.
c
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