patch 8.1.0743: giving error messages is not flexible commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f9e3e09fdc93be9f0d47afbc6c7df1188c2a5a0d Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jan 13 23:38:42 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.0743: giving error messages is not flexible Problem: Giving error messages is not flexible. Solution: Add semsg(). Change argument from "char_u *" to "char *", also for msg() and get rid of most MSG macros. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #3302) Also make emsg() accept a "char *" argument. Get rid of an enormous number of type casts.

--- a/src/proto/misc2.pro
+++ b/src/proto/misc2.pro
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ int after_pathsep(char_u *b, char_u *p);
 int same_directory(char_u *f1, char_u *f2);
 int vim_chdirfile(char_u *fname, char *trigger_autocmd);
 int vim_stat(const char *name, stat_T *stp);
-char_u *parse_shape_opt(int what);
+char *parse_shape_opt(int what);
 int get_shape_idx(int mouse);
 void update_mouseshape(int shape_idx);
 void *vim_findfile_init(char_u *path, char_u *filename, char_u *stopdirs, int level, int free_visited, int find_what, void *search_ctx_arg, int tagfile, char_u *rel_fname);