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

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 8:40 PM Salman Halim <salmanhalim@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Salman

This would work great… as long as you are certain in advance that the
Vim you're running on has a built-in (and non-buggy) try-catch
feature. This can be checked, of course, with
:if exists(':try') == 2
but I remember a time when that feature (introduced when? At some
point in Vim 7, I think) didn't exist. As a belt-and-suspenders man, I
try to make the fewest possible unsupported assumptions. ;-)

Best regards,
Tony.

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