On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/11/12 13:48, Marcin Szamotulski wrote: >> >> On 11:53 Sun 04 Nov , Andre Majorel wrote: >>> >>> In help.txt, tabs are used as if help.vim didn't strip the "|" >>> around tag references. Is it how it's supposed to be ? >>> >> >> >> See my other answer to your post. help.vim is not stripping "|", (and >> also "*"). This is done by the conceal vim feature. If you have it >> (:echo has("conceal")) then you can check where the 'cole' option was >> set from: open a help file and run: >> :verb set cole? >> >> Normally it is set in help.vim. So I guess you have overwritten it >> somehow, or your vim/gvim has not conceal feature. See ":help 'cole'", >> ":help 'cocu'", ":help conceal". >> > > What the OP means, and I confirm it, is that when 'conceallevel' is 2 (as > $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/help.vim sets it) the columns and indents in help files > become misaligned. OTOH, setting 'conceallevel' to zero (either by an > after-syntax plugin, or by running a feature-poor Vim compiled with > -conceal, or even manually), the columns and indents align properly. > > I suppose that this is "how it is supposed to be", for several reasons: > - The 'conceal' feature is relatively recent in mainline Vim (though it > existed before as an unofficial patch). The help files are much more > ancient, and of course when vanilla Vim did not have +conceal the help files > took no account of the feature > - There are still Vim versions (from Tiny to Normal) which are compiled > without the feature. +conceal is present only in Big and Huge builds. > - There are still diehard conservatives like me, who set 'conceallevel' to > zero in help files > - Vim's indent plugins mostly take no account of +conceal; they treat > concealed text as visible text. > >
Okay I read :h conceal what exactly is the benefit of this setting? Why would one use it? -- 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
