Tony Mechelynck-2 wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
>
I removed the modeline, and still defaults back to help filetype, and the
weird thing is that if i remove the 'syntax enable' and 'filetype on'
commands from the .vimrc the filetype would be to whatever i manually set in
the autocommand, but these SAME two commands don't overrule a buffer
filetype after it has been already set.
does 'filetype on' command behave differently from the .vimrc vs. the
command line?
thanks so much
alex
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