On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 2:25:10 PM, I wrote: >On Mar 15, 11:22 am, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On Thursday, March 14, 2013 6:13:10 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote: >>> In a window with nofoldenable and foldcolumn=0, I issue the >>> command :new. This creates a window that has foldcolumn=5. Two >>> of my other windows have foldcolumn=5, but why would the new >>> window have this? >> >> 'foldcolumn' has both a global and a local value. When you create a >> new widow, the local value of the option is initialized to the >> global value. You can use :setlocal to set only the local value >> without affecting the global value, or :setglobal for the reverse. >> >> You probably created you windows something like this: >> >> :set foldcolumn=0 >> :new >> :set foldcolumn=5 >> :wincmd p >> :new >> >> This will create the new window with foldcolumn of 5, because you >> used :set, which sets both the global and the local value. >> >> If you use this instead, the new window will have foldcolumn of 0: >> >> :set foldcolumn=0 >> :new >> :setlocal foldcolumn=5 >> :wincmd p >> :new >> >> Also this: >> >> :set foldcolumn=0 >> :new >> :set foldcolumn=5 >> :setglobal foldcolumn=0 >> :wincmd p >> :new >> >> I'd actually suggest putting a :setglobal in your .vimrc for the >> preferred default setting, and always using :setlocal to set >> individual windows. > > Thanks, Ben. The thought did occur to me about the global versus > local, and I explicitly used setl and setg to make foldcolumn=0. > The problem persisted, albeit in a random manner (sometimes I > succeeded). That's when I looked at the help for foldcolumn. The > strange thing is that the documentation says it is local. Is there > something about how to interpret the documentation that I should be > aware of? > > Thanks for clarifying that "set" simultaneously does a setl and > setg. Always wondered about that.
Just as an interesting point of confusion, ":setg foldcolumn?" does not return the global value. The value depends on the window, so I assume that it returns the local value. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
