patch 8.1.0743: giving error messages is not flexible commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f9e3e09fdc93be9f0d47afbc6c7df1188c2a5a0d Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jan 13 23:38:42 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.0743: giving error messages is not flexible Problem: Giving error messages is not flexible. Solution: Add semsg(). Change argument from "char_u *" to "char *", also for msg() and get rid of most MSG macros. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #3302) Also make emsg() accept a "char *" argument. Get rid of an enormous number of type casts.

/* XPM */
static char * vim16x16[] = {
"16 16 8 1",
" 	c None",
".	c #000000",
"+	c #000080",
"@	c #008000",
"#	c #00FF00",
"$	c #808080",
"%	c #C0C0C0",
"&	c #FFFFFF",
"  .....#. ....  ",
" .&&&&&.@.&&&&. ",
" .%%%%%$..%%%%$.",
"  .%%%$.@.&%%$. ",
"  .%%%$..&%%$.  ",
"  .%%%$.&%%$..  ",
" #.%%%$&%%$.@@. ",
"#@.%%%&%%$.@@@@.",
".@.%%%%%..@@@@+ ",
" ..%%%%.%...@.  ",
"  .%%%%...%%.%. ",
"  .%%%.%%.%%%%%.",
"  .%%$..%.%.%.%.",
"  .%$.@.%.%.%.%.",
"   .. .%%.%.%.%.",
"       .. . . . "};