Re: Does viminfo store nested lists?

On Tue, December 10, 2013 11:18, Liang Li wrote:
> When I look at the help file for viminfo (7.3.1314), I see this scary
> sounding passage:
>
> :h 'viminfo
>
> "Nested List and Dict items may not be read back correctly, you end up
> with a string representation instead."
>
> I justed tested this and it seems that nested lists and dictionaries are
> read back correctly. What does this scary sounding "may" mean?

Writing Dict and Lists into .viminfo has been added somewhere in the
7.3 release cycle (I don't remember exactly which patch, I think
it was some early patch). There is still an issue in the todo list
about writing nested Dict and Lists giving some error, but I personally
haven't seen it.

So I think it can't be guaranteed, that it works reliably under all
circumstances.

Best,
Christian

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