commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/910b8aac5dc4693c4508b7acd2cef0bbfac04242 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Feb 16 21:03:07 2016 +0100 patch 7.4.1341 Problem: It's difficult to add more arguments to ch_sendraw() and ch_sendexpr(). Solution: Make the third option a dictionary.

Test for ":options".

STARTTEST
:so small.vim
:let caught = 'ok'
:try
  :options
:catch 
  :let caught = v:throwpoint . "\n" . v:exception
:endtry
:buf 1
:$put =caught
:"
:" Test that changing 'path' keeps two commas.
:set path=foo,,bar
:set path-=bar
:set path+=bar
:$put =&path
:/^result/,$w! test.out
:qa!
ENDTEST

result