Reply to message «Re: grep quickfix window question», sent 19:04:54 15 October 2010, Friday by Gary Johnson:
> It looked to me like it was global, too, but ":help cursorline" says
> that it's local to the window. What's happening is that new windows
> inherit at least some of the settings of the windows from which they
> are created.
No, it is partially false. The problem here is that `:set' command sets both
global and local values, you should use `:setlocal' to set only local value
without touching global. More info is available in :h local-options. The
following code works just fine:
autocmd Filetype qf setlocal cursorline
Original message:
> On 2010-10-15, Jim Green wrote:
> > On Oct 15, 9:31 am, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> > > This is what I did.
> > >
> > > $ vim -N -u NONE
> > >
> > > :set cursorline
> > > :au FileType QF nmap <buffer> <cr> <cr><c-w><c-p>
> > > :grep PATTERN *
> > > :cw
> > >
> > > where PATTERN is a string I knew would be found in some files in the
> > > current directory, and 'cursorline' is set to more easily see the
> > > cursor movement in the top buffer.
> > >
> > > At this point, moving the cursor in the quickfix window and hitting
> > > Enter works as advertised: the cursor moves to the correct file and
> > > line in the top window and returns to the quickfix window.
> >
> > This works well, but looks like set cursorline is global, could I have
> > a cursorline just when I do :grep and :cw ?
>
> It looked to me like it was global, too, but ":help cursorline" says
> that it's local to the window. What's happening is that new windows
> inherit at least some of the settings of the windows from which they
> are created.
>
> If you wanted to set 'cursorline' when doing :grep, you could use
> this autocommand:
>
> au QuickFixCmdPre * set cursorline
>
> I haven't found a way to automatically turn the 'cursorline' off
> when the quickfix window is closed, though.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
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