patch 8.2.4067: Vim9: cannot call imported function with :call Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f111cdfae6edf697390e0d9a85082a6526b03da6 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Wed Jan 12 12:48:17 2022 +0000 patch 8.2.4067: Vim9: cannot call imported function with :call Problem: Vim9: cannot call imported function with :call. (Drew Vogel) Solution: Translate the function name. (closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/9510)

" 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