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When Vim reports errors within a function it typically reports relative line numbers. For example:

Error detected while processing function Foo:
line  11:
E123: Blah blah

Here indicating the issue is at line 11 relative to start of function Foo. Guess this is a result of how Vim load functions etc. – but is there a way to make it report absolute line numbers? As in line-number of script-file holding the function.

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There was an RFC suggesting this, but there was no response from Bram at the time.

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  • I'll wait for a bit, but guess this is the answer – unless there is a clever hack.
    – Runium
    Mar 10 '15 at 19:36
  • There was no patch there, just a wish, wasn't it?
    – Christian Brabandt
    Mar 10 '15 at 19:37
  • @ChristianBrabandt Doh. You're right. ZyX was doing a lot of hacking on the function code at the time, so I saw the post and just figured it had a patch.
    – jamessan
    Mar 10 '15 at 19:47
  • @jamessan I remember that RFC, but I didn't completly understand what was meant so I never really tried to fix it
    – Christian Brabandt
    Mar 10 '15 at 20:44

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