On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:46:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file > > type setting of vim, sometimes it is good an other times it is a pain in > > the but. > > > > I have done some reading about setting vim options in files. > > > > for example I am editing a makefile and I have placed this line at the > > bottom > > > > # vim:ft='' > > > > when I load up this file in vim and then execute set ft, it returns > > makefile, > > which is not what I want, have I typed it wrong or is there some option > > that I > > need to set ?
I'm just wondering, why don't you want the filetype? One of the reasons I started using vim was it's syntax highlighting. > another look and I found what I was looking for, seems like modeline is > turned > off in debian, so I have added to my ~/.vimrc a set modeline For security reasons probably. Be careful what files you are loading. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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