Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Re: Doc bug? (was Re: Curious remark about CTRL-V p in cmdline.txt)

On Monday, January 6, 2014 11:47:09 PM UTC+1, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-01-06 16:42, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > Based on the Mercurial repo, this text has been there since roughly
>
> > the original load into Mercurial ("hg blame
>
> > vim/src/doc/cmdline.txt"), so I suspect one would have to dig into
>
> > the older source archive (I don't remember whether it was CVS or
>
> > SVN).
>
>
>
> Sorry, that path should have been vim/runtime/doc/cmdline.txt
>
> (s/src/runtime/)
>
>
>
> Based on the CVS repository[1], it looks like this may have been here
>
> since cmdline.txt was initially added/created.
>

You're thorough! I did an hg blame but I didn't think of going back to
the roots of Vim 5.5 in CVS ... this makes me wonder, is this the oldest
version of Vim still available? I couldn't find anything older than
Vim 5.5.

Anyway, I agree that it does now look like a doc bug.

cc-ed to vim_dev.

Best,

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