patch 9.0.0247: cannot add padding to virtual text without highlight Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f396ce83eebf6c61596184231d39ce4d41eeac04 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Aug 23 18:39:37 2022 +0100 patch 9.0.0247: cannot add padding to virtual text without highlight Problem: Cannot add padding to virtual text without highlight. Solution: Add the "text_padding_left" argument. (issue https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/10906)

" 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