patch 8.1.1692: using *{} for literal dict is not backwards compatible commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b8be54dcc517c9d57b62409945b7d4b90b6c3071 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jul 14 18:22:59 2019 +0200 patch 8.1.1692: using *{} for literal dict is not backwards compatible Problem: Using *{} for literal dict is not backwards compatible. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) Solution: Use ~{} instead.

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!