vim error E492: Not an editor command: ++nested call s:hijack_directory() about dotfiles HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi,

It should work with Vim 8.1 too for reference.

In this case, it's an example taken from Fern (a plugin). I just opened an issue for it at lambdalisue/fern.vim#201.

Thanks for the report. If the author of that plugin doesn't provide a working example with 8.0 I may need to mark my vimrc to only work with 8.1+ because I wouldn't know how to fix that.

Edit:

Just for future reference, running sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim before this dotfiles's instructions for installing Vim should work for Ubuntu 18.04, that will grab Vim 8.2. If need be, I'll update the docs to include this as well. But let's see if an 8.0 fix can be made since AFAIK I don't use anything else in my vimrc that only works with 8.1+.

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Turns out Fern requires Vim 8.1+.

Installing Vim from the PPA listed above will get you going on Ubuntu 18.04.

I've also updated my vimrc to mention needing Vim 8.1+ and included better installation instructions for multiple distros in the README at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles#quickly-get-set-up-with-these-dotfiles.

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