Re: Resolved: How to set selectmode?

On 07/16/2011 06:38 AM, Asis Hallab wrote:
> I do not understand, why the arguments have to be passed
> without the "-char surrounding them, though Vim-Documentation
> states selectmode and keymodel are comma separated lists of
> strings.

There are two issues:

quotes: vim treats the things that follow the assignment as a
literal terminated by a newline or space, so the quotes aren't
needed. This manifests itself below where it tries to treat the
space as a separator for a subsequent option.

manipulating a list of options: it's best to add/remove the
options individually using the "+=", "^=" and "-=" operators for
the option.

:help add-option-flags

> Also putting
>
> set selectmode = key
> set keymodel = startsel
>
> in my .vimrc (Note the whitespaces surrounding the equality-signs.), yields
> an error, when starting vim:
> "
> Error detected while processing .vimrc:
> line 28:
> E518: Unknown option: startsel key= key= key= key=

The help about the spaces is detailed both at

:help :set-args
:help option-backslash

Hope that helps clear up some of the confusion.

-tim

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