Vim version dependencies

[steeef]

I've looked through the README and recent issues, but I haven't seen a solution for this.

I've got a number of plugins specified in the following manner:

 if v:version > 703 || (v:version == 703 && has('patch584'))
    Plug 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe', { 'do': './install.sh' }
endif

Kind of messy to put it in my list of plugins.

There are already conditions for filetypes and on specific commands. What about on a function return? Say if a specific function returns 0 (equivalent to "false" in vimscript, right?), don't load the function .

[vheon]

So what are you proposing? What would you write in your vimrc?

[junegunn]

Something like this?

Plug 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe', { 'do': './install.sh', 'if': v:version > 703 }

If that's what you're proposing, I'd given thought about providing such syntactic sugar, but decided not to do it, because:

1. It has some gotchas. You can't use s: variables and functions inline, which makes you unnecessarily expose functions and variables as globals (g:). (And I should mention this limitation in the documentation.)
2. And I don't think using native if statement is messy. I also use several conditional statements (https://github.com/junegunn/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L50-L52). If there are several plugins that share a condition it's more concise to group those in an if-clause than to repeat the same if option.

So I concluded it wasn't really worth it especially since I prefer to keep the set of options as small as possible. But I'm still open to suggestions. Let me know if you have different ideas.

[steeef]

Thanks for the explanation. I think that makes sense, especially your examples, @junegunn. Consider it closed.