Even if the language syntax mandates maximum line lengths, you probably don't want to force +t. This will insert line breaks even in the middle of string literals, and it's a pain for users to figure out what happened, undo the bad linebreak, then fix the long lines properly. It would be better to find a syntax-aware method of breaking long lines, or failing that, leave it up to users. Anyway, the default is 'tcq', so forcing +t won't do anything except fight with users who have explicitly disabled it.
I've seen lots of HighlightLongLines hacks floating around, and they're all brittle (e.g., they don't catch updates to &textwidth, and they don't cooperate well with other syntax files). It would be nice if vim officially supported something for it in addition to &colorcolumn (e.g. highlighting ONLY long lines so you can give them a screaming red color and not make other lines look ugly). Then if it's truly part of the standard, you have options to bake that into the built-in files. David On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Ajit Thakkar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 12:16:38 PM UTC-3, David Barnett wrote: > > I'm confident we can get consensus to at least remove a few of those > formatoptions modifications. You should also add "setlocal > formatoptions-=t" in pretty much every case (unless your syntax is fine > with any arbitrary space being converted to a newline). > > The concept above is right. Most fo options should not be set in an > ftplugin file. Only fo+=t is needed for Fortran code where the ISO standard > mandates maximum line lengths. I have incorporated this change along with > other unrelated ones I was planning to make in ftplugin/fortran.vim. I have > sent the updated file to Bram. > > Ajit > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
