On Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:48:50 AM UTC-5, Jan wrote: > On Wednesday, 22 August, 2012 at 17:43:31 BST, Gary Johnson wrote: > > >You can use FileType autocommands in your ~/.vimrc like this, > > > > > > au FileType perl setlocal tw=2 > > > > That seems to be fine for when a Perl file is opened (although I'm not sure > what event triggers it -- BufNewFile? BufRead?),
The event is a FileType event. It fires whenever you or Vim set the filetype to perl. > but if I have autocmds that execute upon specific events, for example: > > > > au BufWritePost *.pl make > > > > how would I feed BufWritePost to your example? > Switch to checking filetype instead of file extension, something like: au BufWritePost * if &ft=='perl' | make | endif -- 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
