dahu/vimple — pull request #2 by jamessan (2013-01-15 19:26:15+00:00)
Title: Use hlexists() to detect vimple highlight groups

Prior to Vim 7.2.265, using `:silent` in a `:try/:catch` would cause Vim's messages area to remain "silent". Using `hlexists()` instead of a `:try/:catch` resolves this issue and is more straight forward.