Great! That actually explains it. I hope, I don't frustrate with my not so clever questions. I did read the help-files though, but only now after re-reading them, I understand the mistakes I made..
Still a Vim-Newby.. Need to do some Vim-Golfing! Thank you very much everyone for your kind help! Asis 2011/7/16 Tim Chase <[email protected]> > On 07/16/2011 06:38 AM, Asis Hallab wrote: > >> I do not understand, why the arguments have to be passed >> without the "-char surrounding them, though Vim-Documentation >> states selectmode and keymodel are comma separated lists of >> strings. >> > > There are two issues: > > quotes: vim treats the things that follow the assignment as a literal > terminated by a newline or space, so the quotes aren't needed. This > manifests itself below where it tries to treat the space as a separator for > a subsequent option. > > manipulating a list of options: it's best to add/remove the options > individually using the "+=", "^=" and "-=" operators for the option. > > :help add-option-flags > > > Also putting >> >> set selectmode = key >> set keymodel = startsel >> >> in my .vimrc (Note the whitespaces surrounding the equality-signs.), >> yields >> an error, when starting vim: >> " >> Error detected while processing .vimrc: >> line 28: >> E518: Unknown option: startsel key= key= key= key= >> > > The help about the spaces is detailed both at > > :help :set-args > :help option-backslash > > Hope that helps clear up some of the confusion. > > -tim > > > -- Asis Hallab Rothehausstr. 6 - 12 50823 Köln Skype: asis.hallab.cgn Fest (Köln) 42346046 Mobil (O2) 0176 63370211 Fax 01212 - 5 - 30697106 -- 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
