* Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> [2011-06-07 17:58:50 +0200]:
> I think, the 'l' flag comes from $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/mail.vim > > In your case, ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim just was executed later > than the mail.vim from the vim runtime directory and happens to also > change your 'fo' setting, so the verbose did not really help here. ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ grep formatoptions /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/mail* /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/mail.vim:23:" Set 'formatoptions' to break text lines and keep the comment leader ">". /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/mailaliases.vim:15:setlocal comments=:# commentstring=#\ %s formatoptions-=t formatoptions+=croql /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/mailcap.vim:16:setlocal comments=:# commentstring=#\ %s formatoptions-=t formatoptions+=croql ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ Here are the three mail files from /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/{mail.vim,mailaliases.vim,mailcap.vim} line 15 in mailaliases.vim and line 16 in mailcap.vim are setting fo+=l, should I remove it from those files? Or move them locally? Incidentally, I thought local files took presedence to global files? Or is this a case of the vim maintainer not doing things as expected and ignoreing .files? -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?