Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Hirohito Higashi wrote: > >> I think it is better to change the default value of Vim body for some >> of the options. >> >> i.e. >> set wildmenu >> set ruler >> set showcmd >> set tags=./tags;,tags; >> etc... >> >> Obviously useful things

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-07-26, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Tumbler Terrall > wrote: > > On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 3:11:11 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote: > >> Hi Bram! > >> > >> On So, 24 Jul 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > >> > >> > > please no hlsearch. That is most often anno

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Tumbler Terrall wrote: > On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 3:11:11 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote: >> Hi Bram! >> >> On So, 24 Jul 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> >> > > please no hlsearch. That is most often annoying. >> > >> > Well, I find it useful. But I suppose

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Bram! > > On So, 24 Jul 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > >> > please no hlsearch. That is most often annoying. >> >> Well, I find it useful. But I suppose that's more a personal >> preference. > > perhaps, if we made ctrl-l clear the s

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Tumbler Terrall
On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 3:11:11 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Bram! > > On So, 24 Jul 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > please no hlsearch. That is most often annoying. > > > > Well, I find it useful. But I suppose that's more a personal > > preference. > > perhaps, if we made

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Bram! On So, 24 Jul 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > please no hlsearch. That is most often annoying. > > Well, I find it useful. But I suppose that's more a personal > preference. perhaps, if we made ctrl-l clear the search highlighting by default? > > some more I would set, the mentioned

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Hirohito Higashi wrote: > I think it is better to change the default value of Vim body for some > of the options. > > i.e. > set wildmenu > set ruler > set showcmd > set tags=./tags;,tags; > etc... > > Obviously useful things should be changed. A few people have mentioned setting 'wildmenu'.

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 8:03:06 AM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> >> if has("autocmd") >> " Enable file type detection. >> filetype plugin indent on >> > > Don't common plugin managers require you to turn on filetype stuff at a ver

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread h_east
Hi Bram and All, I think it is better to change the default value of Vim body for some of the options. i.e. set wildmenu set ruler set showcmd set tags=./tags;,tags; etc... Obviously useful things should be changed. Thanks. -- Best regards, Hirohito Higashi (a.k.a. h_east) -- -- You receive

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Ben Fritz
On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 8:02:21 AM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > > Ideally, starting the program as 'vim' would automatically give the user > > the improvements promised in the name. And 'vi' would hide all those > > improvements. > > > > Here is

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Ben Fritz
On Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 8:03:06 AM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > if has("autocmd") > " Enable file type detection. > filetype plugin indent on > Don't common plugin managers require you to turn on filetype stuff at a very specific location, e.g. *after* loading the plugin man

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > Ideally, starting the program as 'vim' would automatically give the user the > improvements promised in the name. And 'vi' would hide all those improvements. > > Here is my list of options to set when run as 'vim': [...] > set hidden > > Because 'no

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 24.07.16 15:02, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > If someone wants to start with 'nocompatible', but not all of the new > option values, a .vimrc would be needed to change the settings. This is > the most common and also most tricky part. Assuming that the user will > want most of the new option values,

Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

2016-07-25 Thread romainlafourcade
Ideally, starting the program as 'vim' would automatically give the user the improvements promised in the name. And 'vi' would hide all those improvements. Here is my list of options to set when run as 'vim': set nocompatible Just because. set autoindent It's smart enough to cover mos