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| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2018-12-22 13:28:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2018-12-22 13:28:07 +0100 |
| commit | 461a7fcfce3cd6414f990037e6468af3b5ccf119 (patch) | |
| tree | 6498b1cf892206698e8b6951af503f6a953bf5ac /runtime | |
| parent | 528ccfbaa1cc805f430a750c551e5a9fd7eb54fe (diff) | |
patch 8.1.0619: :echomsg and :echoerr do not handle List and Dictv8.1.0619
Problem: :echomsg and :echoerr do not handle List and Dict like :echo does.
(Daniel Hahler)
Solution: Be more tolerant about the expression result type.
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/eval.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index f76af3848a..2bc27a6295 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -9233,7 +9233,8 @@ test_ignore_error({expr}) *test_ignore_error()* error with try/catch cannot be used (because it skips over following code). {expr} is used literally, not as a pattern. - There is currently no way to revert this. + When the {expr} is the string "RESET" then the list of ignored + errors is made empty. test_null_channel() *test_null_channel()* Return a Channel that is null. Only useful for testing. @@ -10999,8 +11000,8 @@ This does NOT work: > The parsing works slightly different from |:echo|, more like |:execute|. All the expressions are first evaluated and concatenated before echoing anything. - The expressions must evaluate to a Number or String, a - Dictionary or List causes an error. + If expressions does not evaluate to a Number or + String, string() is used to turn it into a string. Uses the highlighting set by the |:echohl| command. Example: > :echomsg "It's a Zizzer Zazzer Zuzz, as you can plainly see." @@ -11011,7 +11012,7 @@ This does NOT work: > message in the |message-history|. When used in a script or function the line number will be added. Spaces are placed between the arguments as with the - :echo command. When used inside a try conditional, + |:echomsg| command. When used inside a try conditional, the message is raised as an error exception instead (see |try-echoerr|). Example: > |