That's fair. It's ok to set encoding to utf-8. MacVim sets it for you as default anyway so it's not necessary, but it could be useful to set that in vimrc to maintain cross-compatibility, if you use Vim on platforms where that is not the case.
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 2:10 AM Lifepillar <lifepil...@lifepillar.me> wrote: > 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 > . > -- -- 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/CAHTeOx8izFhyqcYVCpQ3NzxTxwWJQqf%3DD5idPdvUG%2Bg2WBznYw%40mail.gmail.com.
