patch 8.2.4356: command line completion functions are very long Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/620d8edba01bb2779485718dd1a99ca670ca894b Author: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Feb 12 12:03:07 2022 +0000 patch 8.2.4356: command line completion functions are very long Problem: Command line completion functions are very long. Solution: Refactor into multiple functions. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes #9753)

" 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