On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:11:34PM -0800, howard Schwartz wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Ben Fritz wrote: > >:oldfiles was added in version 7.2.031, quite some time after > >7.0.237 was :released. You will need to upgrade to a more recent > >version of Vim to get :this feature.
> Interesting that my 7.0 help files include a description of this > feature! I have read a description of it being first added as a > `tentative patch' in > version 7 that had a bug, and then withdrawn - only to be reintroduced later, > apparently. it sounds as if your runtime files (which include the help modules) are newer than your vim > I could always write a brute force script using, for instance, awk, that > grepped out the filenames from viminfo and offerred them in vim with a prompt. > Might run a bit slow, however. simpler would be to download source and build your own current vim -- benefits from that would include runtime files that match the executable, many bugfixes and new features sc -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
