Not able to catch exception from readdirex()

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi all,

Using Vim 8.2.1805, an exception thrown by readdirex() is not caught by

a try-catch statement:

try
    let files = "non-existing-dir"->readdirex()
catch
    echo "caught an exception"
endtry

This works in older versions of Vim (8.1.2292).

- Yegappan

[Bram Moolenaar]

This uses smsg() instead of semsg(). I'll fix it.

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[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi Bram,

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 5:22 AM Bram Moolenaar <Br...@moolenaar.net> wrote:

Yegappan wrote:

> Using Vim 8.2.1805, an exception thrown by readdirex() is not caught by
> a try-catch statement:
>
> try
>     let files = "non-existing-dir"->readdirex()
> catch
>     echo "caught an exception"
> endtry
>
> This works in older versions of Vim (8.1.2292).

This uses smsg() instead of semsg().  I'll fix it.

Thanks for fixing this. I missed that in the previous versions of Vim it was

throwing a different exception. I thought it was broken by the recent changes

to handle exceptions in Vim9.

Regards,

Yegappan