Re: No more 8-character limit?

On 28/03/10 18:28, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> Andy Wokula just uploaded what seems like a useful plugin called
> 'motpat'. Months from now, there's no way I'd remember 'motpat' comes
> from "create MOTion mappings defined by a PATtern".
>
> Can't we all agree that the 8-character limit is absurd at this point?
> Are there systems that still have trouble with>8?
>
> To be clear, I'm not picking on his plugin's name in particular -- I've
> just wondered for a while why this is still part of
> :help write-plugin
> which states that 8 characters is "to avoid problems on old Windows
> systems".
>

Not only old Windows systems (and, of course, MS-DOS) but also some Dos
emulators and/or some filesystems. See doc/vi_diff.txt lines 758 sqq,
and the help for 'shortname'.

Best regards,
Tony.
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