George V. Reilly wrote:

> 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.

What I did now is to disable recognizing .wiki files as flexwiki.
Someone still using these files can re-enable it when needed.

I can't find another file format that uses the .wiki extension.
Mediawiki uses .mw.

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