Actually, wait -- &history is for *command* history. I'm looking for *message* history. Is there an analogous variable that I can use to query the message history size (which, to my knowledge, depends upon the vim compile featureset)?
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Nate Soares <nate@so8r.es> wrote:
Those are precisely what I was looking for. I didn't know about &history -- it's not referenced in the :message-history docs, which is where I was looking. Thanks!
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:On 2013-12-03 11:00, So8res wrote:Am I missing something, or can you just test
> Specifically, I would like to determine the message history size
> (20 or 200, according as vim is tiny or larger) in vimscript.
if &history > 20
call do_fancy_stuff()
endif
Alternatively, if you want to detect how much a given history
currently has in it, you can use histnr() for the corresponding
history-name to see how many it currently holds.
-tim
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