On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Scanning the ftplugins, it seems 'flexwiki' is the only one which sets
> > 'bomb'.  Is it an ok thing for it to do?  Also, why is "flexwiki" the
> > handler, when wikipedia is probably the most widely used wiki?  But
> > that's a quibble.
>
> Setting 'bomb' is weird.  Unless the filetype requires the file to be
> written in utf-8 for the file to be working properly.
>
> George, is setting 'bomb' really required?  If so, how can we avoid that
> this happens when the flexwiki filetype is detected when it's actually
> another kind of file?
>
> As a guard, 'bomb' should only be set when 'encoding' is utf-8.
> This applies to 'fileencoding' as well.
>
> At the time of writing the www.flexwiki.com site was not available, thus
> I could not check any specification there.


I haven't used Flexwiki in 3 years, so I forget the details of why 'bomb'
was needed.

I think Flexwiki is dead or nearly so. It seems like mapping .wiki files to
wikipedia (MediaWiki?) rather than Flexwiki is far more useful. Feel free to
remove the flexwiki mapping from ftplugin.vim.
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