On 19/06/10 01:17, aleCodd wrote:
i have the following in .vimrc:
au BufNewFile,BufRead *diff*.txt set ft=diff_help
but then when i do
tabnew diff.txt
set ft
i get
filetype=help
why?
by the way, i have later on in .vimrc
filetype on
does this override the autocommand?
because from insdie the buffer when i set a help type file (*.txt) manually
to anything (for exapmle:'new') and then the command filetype, the filetype
doesn't changed
thanks
alex
Most Vim helpfiles have a modeline at the end, something like
vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
(see :help modeline)
The :ft=help: part in such a modeline (intentionally) overrides any
filetype which might have been set by the filetype-detection mechanism.
Normally you wouldn't want to override such modelines, they're there for
good reason. (For instance I have an own-coded rule to identify *.txt
files as filetype "text", but thanks to these modelines it doesn't apply
to the Vim help.)
Best regards,
Tony.
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