On 2023-04-19, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 5:58:25 PM UTC+2 Yee Cheng Chin wrote: > > No, please *don't* set fileencoding, encoding, or fileformats in your vimrc > at all. That's not where those settings should go and in fact you should > rarely need to set these settings. The default works just fine. I recommend > reading the documentation on what each one does. Online snippets like > StackOverflow and great for addressing specific needs but they are not good > for setting up a vimrc cohesively. > > Setting 'encoding' etc. in the vimrc _may_ be a good idea >
Thanks for this thorough description of the settings. I will only add that `:help encoding` in MacVim has this note: NOTE: For MacVim and GTK+, it is highly recommended to set 'encoding' to "utf-8". Although care has been taken to allow different values of 'encoding', "utf-8" is the natural choice for the environment and avoids unnecessary conversion overhead. Best, Life. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" 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_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_mac+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_mac/u1rv6d%241ba%241%40ciao.gmane.io.