# The Vim parser

## Incompatible change

Quoted from `:help script-variable` in the Vim documentation:

                            *script-variable* *s:var*
    In a Vim script variables starting with "s:" can be used. They
    cannot be accessed from outside of the scripts, thus are local to
    the script.

Exuberant Ctags records the prefix s: as part of a script-local variable’s name. However, it is omitted from function names. As requested in issue #852 on GitHub, Universal Ctags now also includes the prefix in script-local function names.