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authorAlexander E. Patrakov <alexander@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-16 09:44:35 +0000
committerAlexander E. Patrakov <alexander@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-16 09:44:35 +0000
commit56f967e444b3b7f7e99590b65cba13fb8e002cbe (patch)
tree104888b6a2bd81d7ebd4a42eb0f7d83550ff3914 /chapter06/vim.xml
parent01b2d1b3c70b95a068502887d63967111f8de6d0 (diff)
Temporarily commented out fileencodings in /etc/vimrc because of a bug
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3798 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml
index 87342421a..7b978ffc7 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim.xml
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ the following:</para>
set nocompatible
set backspace=2
syntax on
-set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>
+<!-- set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable> -->
if (&amp;term == "iterm") || (&amp;term == "putty")
set background=dark
endif
@@ -119,7 +119,11 @@ vi-compatible manner. Remove the "no" if you want the old <command>vi</command>
behavior. The <emphasis>set backspace=2</emphasis> allows
backspacing over line breaks, autoindents and the start of insert. The
<emphasis>syntax on</emphasis> enables <command>vim</command>'s
-syntax highliting. The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes
+syntax highliting.
+<!-- XXX: the ascii-only files are considered to be in utf-8 - that's not what
+one expects . That's why fileencodings stuff is commented out for now
+
+The <emphasis>set fileencodings=...</emphasis> makes
<command>vim</command> capable of automatically detecting the character
set of the file being edited (replace
"<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>"
@@ -127,8 +131,8 @@ with the value appropriate for your country, e.g. iso-8859-15 in Italy).
This line is useful because bleeding-edge distributions
like Fedora Core use UTF-8, and conservative ones like Debian
use traditional 8-bit encodings for text files. If you have not
-passed the <option>--enable-multibyte</option> switch to the
-<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work.
+passed the <option>- -enable-multibyte</option> switch to the
+<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work. -->
Finally, the <emphasis>if</emphasis> statement with the
<emphasis>set background=dark</emphasis> corrects <command>vim</command>'s
guess about the background color of some terminal emulators. This gives the