Experiment to test vim-devicon's custom ctrlp open function changes (solve E16)

vim-devicons-115-experiment1.vim

" setup
function! s:strip(input)
  return substitute(a:input, '^\s*\(.\{-}\)\s*$', '\1', '')
endfunction

" current way:

function! Original115()

  let line = ' ~/www/some/big/long/jenky/path/something.something/whatever_it_is/bigUgly/path/too/long/something.vim'
  let line = substitute(line, "[-]", "", "")
  let line = s:strip(line)

endfun

" alternate way:

function! Alternate115()

  let line = ' ~/www/some/big/long/jenky/path/something.something/whatever_it_is/bigUgly/path/too/long/something.vim'

  let glyphCandidate = char2nr(strpart(line, 0, 3))
  let glyphASCIIRangeStart = 57344
  let glyphASCIIRangeEnd = 63743

  if glyphCandidate >= glyphASCIIRangeStart && glyphCandidate <= glyphASCIIRangeEnd
    let line = strpart(line, 3)
  endif

  let line = s:strip(line)

endfun

" alternate way cached variables:

let s:glyphASCIIRangeStart = 57344
let s:glyphASCIIRangeEnd = 63743

function! AlternateCached115()

  let line = ' ~/www/some/big/long/jenky/path/something.something/whatever_it_is/bigUgly/path/too/long/something.vim'

  let glyphCandidate = char2nr(strpart(line, 0, 3))

  if glyphCandidate >= s:glyphASCIIRangeStart && glyphCandidate <= s:glyphASCIIRangeEnd
    let line = strpart(line, 3)
  endif

  let line = s:strip(line)

endfun

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