Charles Campbell wrote:
> In nosing around the help, I see for :help filetypedetect-changed the
> following:
>
> The distributed syntax files no longer contain "syntax clear". That
> makes it
> possible to include one in the other without tricks. The syntax is now
> cleared when the 'syntax' option is set (by an autocommand added from
> synload.vim). This makes the syntax cleared when the value of 'syntax' does
> not correspond to a syntax file. Previously the existing highlighting was
> kept.
>
> However:
>
> fgrep "syn clear" *.vim | wc shows 56 files with this command, and
> fgrep "syntax clear" *.vim | wc shows 357 files with this command.
>
> Should all the syn(tax) clears be removed? Or am I reading the above
> paragraph incorrectly?
These should all be inside an if:
if version < 600
syntax clear
elseif exists("b:current_syntax")
finish
endif
Since version 6 is now very old, we could change all of them to:
if exists("b:current_syntax")
finish
endif
Perhaps I should just do that now, so that it's consistent.
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