Status of pseudovariables?

[vefatica]

The pseudovariable '=' doesn't seem to work any longer. '+' does work. Both have help pages. What's their status?

 

[rconn]

Both have been deprecated for the past three or four versions. %= was removed a couple of years ago because of compatibility issues.

 

[rconn]

Do you have "Expand Pseudovariables" set in your TCMD.INI?

 

[vefatica]

Do you have "Expand Pseudovariables" set in your TCMD.INI?

Interesting! I do not have that checked (I never use them). Yet

v:\> echo foo %+ echo bar
foo
bar

And I see (the expected?)

v:\> echo %=foo
%=foo

Enabling their expansion has no effect on the %+ behavior mentioned above, but gives this.

That first character is the character I see if I "ECHO %@CHAR[12]".

All this was with v20.

 

[vefatica]

Note: that character in my last example might be a translation. If I select/copy in the console, and paste here, we see:

v:\> echo %=foo
♀oo

 

[rconn]

Pseudovariables have been deprecated for three years and are officially unsupported in v20. They might still appear to work in a few cases, but that could change at any time.