charles-- i have formatoptions set in my .vimrc to tcroqn
i have a script i call gvime that starts 'vim -g -c Explore' (i tried 'gvim -c Explore' with the same result) if i run gvime, and select a file to edit, i find formatoptions is now croqn -- the t has been whacked, and even with a modeline setting textwidth, i am manually formatting paragraphs, running scriptnames, and generally having a bad day i have a python enabled gvim, version 7.0.35, on linux (rel 2.6.13-15.10-smp) kde version 3.4.2 level "b" in other words i just installed suse linux 10.0 and i'm a linux newbie any help will be appreciated, scott