On Mar 15, 11:22 am, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: >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.
Thanks, Ben. The thought did occur to me about the global versus local, and I explicitly used setl and setg to make foldcolumn=0. The problem persisted, albeit in a random manner (sometimes I succeeded). That's when I looked at the help for foldcolumn. The strange thing is that the documentation says it is local. Is there something about how to interpret the documentation that I should be aware of? Thanks for clarifying that "set" simultaneously does a setl and setg. Always wondered about that. -- -- 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.
