commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/451f849fd6282a4facd4f0f58af62837443fb5a6 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Apr 14 17:16:22 2016 +0200 patch 7.4.1735 Problem: It is not possible to only see part of the message history. It is not possible to clear messages. Solution: Add a count to ":messages" and a clear argument. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)

README_src.txt for version 7.4 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-7.4-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!