On 2011-11-23, Linda W wrote:
> When I type in a command with the "+=" operator, it seems to
> appended the new text separated by a comma -- which is probably
> what is normally wanted, but in this one case, wasn't....I wanted
> to append the new text to the existing string -- literally, not as a
> new 'list value'...
> (since for 'guifont', adding a new list value, isn't too useful on
> windows, AFAIK).
>
> I.e. I had
> 'Lucida_Console:H11',
> and I wanted
> 'Lucida_Console:H11:W6'
>
> so I tried
> :set guifont+=:W6
> instead of what I wanted, I got:
> 'Lucida_Console:H11,:W6'
>
> (which doesn't work...)...
>
> so is there a way to tell (or is there a different
> operator I should use) to tell it to append as
> literal vs. as a list item?
Use :let instead of :set:
:let &guifont .= ':W6'
See
:help :let-option
Regards,
Gary
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