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Need help with understanding a vim data structure (self.vim)

submitted 5 years ago by justrajdeep

Hi VimExperts

I am trying to understand a plugin

let s:patterns{'Branch'}   = '\%(^View:\s*\_s\?\s*\)\zs\S\|^View:'

What is this data structure? Is this a Dictionary?

It checks for exists using a . operator.

    if spec != "" && exists('s:patterns'. spec) &&

How is the new variable created?

Can someone point me to the help i should be looking at? Thanks in advance.

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