patch 8.2.3418: garbage collection while evaluating may cause trouble Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/070ac3433b0ebefd6dc6cd49707fcfa1421b9e67 Author: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> Date: Thu Sep 9 12:12:03 2021 +0200 patch 8.2.3418: garbage collection while evaluating may cause trouble Problem: Garbage collection while evaluating may cause trouble. Solution: Disable garbage collection while evaluating an expression. (Christian Brabandt, issue #8848)

" Invoked with the name "vim.pot" and a list of Vim script names.
" Converts them to a .js file, stripping comments, so that xgettext works.
" Javascript is used because, like Vim, it accepts both single and double
" quoted strings.

set shortmess+=A

for name in argv()[1:]
  exe 'edit ' .. fnameescape(name)

  " Strip comments
  g/^\s*"/s/.*//

  " Write as .js file, xgettext recognizes them
  exe 'w! ' .. fnamemodify(name, ":t:r") .. ".js"
endfor

quit