On Nov 8, 11:34 am, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/08/10 10:23, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > If I open an XML file in Notepad everything is in tags. Good. > > > If I open the same XML file in Vim I am getting the< to display a > > "<" etc. > > > How do I turn it off...or can I? > > I've opened a lot of XML files in Vim, and have never experienced > vim mangling my text/tags. This could be a couple things: > > 1) Notepad being too smart for its own good (unlikely) > > 2) you *think* you're opening it in Notepad, but it's some other > tool. I know on Win32, several XML files are sniffed for content > such as Excel's "XML Document" format, differing from DOCX) and > opened with something other than the default "open this with > Notepad" (or IE, or whatever your file associations specify). If > you're really opening Notepad and using the File->Open menu to > navigate to the XML file and open it, and you still see kosher > XML, then it's likely good XML data. Which then indicates > something in Vim... > > 3) a Vim plugin that you have enabled that escapes HTML entities > > To test for #3, I'd try starting vim with > > vim -u NONE my_file.xml >
That makes it display fine... > to start a virgin copy of Vim. If you appropriately see what you > expect (i.e. non-escaped entities), then some plugin/script is > interfering with things. If you then restart vim normally and > open the file > > vim my_file.xml > > and issue > > :scriptnames > > and include the output in your reply, it might help track down > the rogue script that's hosing your XML. > 1: C:\Vim\_vimrc 2: C:\Vim\vimfiles\vimrc 3: C:\Vim\vim73\macros\matchit.vim 4: C:\Vim\vim73\syntax\syntax.vim 5: C:\Vim\vim73\syntax\synload.vim 6: C:\Vim\vim73\syntax\syncolor.vim 7: C:\Vim\vim73\filetype.vim 8: C:\Vim\vim73\ftplugin.vim 9: C:\Vim\vim73\indent.vim 10: C:\Vim\vim73\colors\desert.vim 11: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\getscriptPlugin.vim 12: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\gzip.vim 13: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\matchparen.vim 14: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\netrwPlugin.vim 15: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\rrhelper.vim 16: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\spellfile.vim 17: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\tarPlugin.vim 18: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\tohtml.vim 19: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\vimballPlugin.vim 20: C:\Vim\vim73\plugin\zipPlugin.vim 21: C:\Vim\vimfiles\after\plugin\snipMate.vim 22: C:\Vim\vim73\syntax\xml.vim 23: C:\Vim\vim73\syntax\dtd.vim 24: C:\Vim\vim73\ftplugin\xml.vim 25: C:\Vim\vim73\indent\xml.vim The only one I see that I added is snipMate.vim.... Bob -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
