On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Thanks, sc. Definitely does. I assumed the behavior was anomalous. Someone, I > think Chris, suggested earlier that a simple ":e" would do the trick, and it > seems to do so. [Is that a shortened version of the command you suggest?] >
:e is essentially equivalent to "file open" in other editors -- so when you use the command :e without a file name it opens (reloads) the current file (see more on the command using :help :e) What you are running into is that Vim has no way to automatically knew the filetype of your file unless it can do so by recognizing the file extension (or a modeline at the beginning or end of a file). So when you start a new file and save it with the proper extension, the :e reloads the file, recognizes the type, and Vim acts accordingly. In other words, it does the same thing that you are doing when you set the filetype automatically... c -- Chris Lott <ch...@chrislott.org> -- 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