Re: How to know in which patch a feature was added

On 2023-06-19, Enan Ajmain wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 14:40:20 -0400
> Salman Halim wrote:
> > This isn't exactly what you asked for, but how about a custom command, such
> > as Set, that calls a function to do the option set in a try/catch? If it
> > succeeds, great. If it fails, you can just ignore it or use an echomsg or
> > something.
> >
> > You won't know when a feature was introduced, but you also won't have to
> > have existence checks around everything.
>
> Great idea! I learned about try-catch in VimScript only a few days ago.
> Don't know why it slipped my mind so soon. Thanks!
>
> I'll set up an user function, as you said, and iteratively replace "set"
> with "Set" for the options that I get an error for.

If all you care about is avoiding the error message, just use
:silent!, e.g.,

:silent! set wildoptions+=pum

Regards,
Gary

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