patch 9.0.1856: issues with formatting positional arguments Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/aa90d4f031f73a34aaef5746931ea746849a2231 Author: Christ van Willegen <cvwillegen@gmail.com> Date: Sun Sep 3 17:22:37 2023 +0200 patch 9.0.1856: issues with formatting positional arguments Problem: issues with formatting positional arguments Solution: fix them, add tests and documentation closes: #12140 closes: #12985 Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> Co-authored-by: Christ van Willegen <cvwillegen@gmail.com> Tentatively fix message_test. Check NULL ptr.

" 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, also after :set commands.
  g/^\s*"/s/.*//
  g/^\s*set .*"/s/.*//

  " Write as .js file, xgettext recognizes them
  exe 'w! ' .. fnamemodify(name, ":t:r") .. ".js"
endfor

quit