patch 8.2.3061: testing the shell option is incomplete and spread out Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/054794c20f6322bbd9482c4124041dc0a140c78e Author: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com> Date: Sun Jun 27 12:07:49 2021 +0200 patch 8.2.3061: testing the shell option is incomplete and spread out Problem: Testing the shell option is incomplete and spread out. Solution: Move shell tests to one file and increase coverage. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes #8464)

" 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