On May 25, 2012, at 7:03 PM, sc wrote: > when you start with an empty window, you have done nothing to > tell vim what type of file you are going to create -- when you > add text it still doesn't know -- if you write the file with a > markdown extent, it COULD know if you would ask it to check > (writing doesn't trigger filetype detection) -- so to ask it you > might try something like > > :syntax enable > > perhaps that will help?
Thanks, sc. Definitely does. I assumed the behavior was anomalous. Someone, I think Chris, suggested earlier that a simple ":e" would do the trick, and it seems to do so. [Is that a shortened version of the command you suggest?] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "The most important thing is the tee-shirt." Samara Alnafdage -- 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
