On 10/01/2012 07:50 p.m., Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2012-01-10, Cesar Romani wrote:
>> On 10/01/2012 06:10 p.m., Gary Johnson wrote:
>>> On 2012-01-10, Cesar Romani wrote:
>>>> I'm using vim 7.3.401 on windows 7. I'm trying to edit a list of text
>>>> files, say test1.txt, test2.txt and test3.txt, with a single vim. When
>>>> I'm on test1.txt and do: set tw=72, this isn't set on the other files!
>>>> If I do :n to go to the next file and do set tw? I get 78.
>>>>
>>>> Not long ago, before updating to 7.3.401, I used to edit a bunch of
>>>> files, set tw=72 in one of them, and this was globally set on the
other
>>>> files. What happened?
>>>>
>>>> If I set sw=8 in one of them, it will be set on the other files,
but not
>>>> with tw.
>>>
>>> After setting tw=72 and executing :n, execute
>>>
>>> :verbose set tw?
>>>
>>> What does that show?
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> --------------------
>> textwidth=78
>> Last set from C:\Vim\vim73\vimrc_example.vim
>> --------------------
>>
>> but I've never changed C:\Vim\vim73\vimrc_example.vim
>
> You may not have changed it explicitly, but it was apparently
> changed as part of your update to 7.3.401.
>
> The change seems to have been made in 7.0, around June 2004, if I'm
> reading the changelog correctly.
It was last year, 2010, that I didn't have any problems with editing a
list of files. I could set tw to 72 on one file and it was set globally
on all files, as it should be.
Anyway if I set tw to 72, it should be set globally, not locally. Is it
right?
Regards,
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Cesar
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