patch 8.0.1427: the :leftabove modifier doesn't work for :copen commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/de04654ddc865af94ef04b1738b335a924be7923 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Dec 26 13:53:11 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.1427: the :leftabove modifier doesn't work for :copen Problem: The :leftabove modifier doesn't work for :copen. Solution: Respect the split modifier. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/2496)