On Thursday, March 14, 2013 6:13:10 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote: > In a window with nofoldenable and foldcolumn=0, I issue the > > command :new. This creates a window that has foldcolumn=5. Two of my > > other windows have foldcolumn=5, but why would the new window have > > this? >
'foldcolumn' has both a global and a local value. When you create a new widow, the local value of the option is initialized to the global value. You can use :setlocal to set only the local value without affecting the global value, or :setglobal for the reverse. You probably created you windows something like this: :set foldcolumn=0 :new :set foldcolumn=5 :wincmd p :new This will create the new window with foldcolumn of 5, because you used :set, which sets both the global and the local value. If you use this instead, the new window will have foldcolumn of 0: :set foldcolumn=0 :new :setlocal foldcolumn=5 :wincmd p :new Also this: :set foldcolumn=0 :new :set foldcolumn=5 :setglobal foldcolumn=0 :wincmd p :new I'd actually suggest putting a :setglobal in your .vimrc for the preferred default setting, and always using :setlocal to set individual windows. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
