Re: Setting encoding for a type of file

On 10/11/11 22:52, Marcio Gil wrote:
> On Nov 10, 7:26 pm, Marcio Gil<marciom...@bol.com.br> wrote:
>>
>> This works for me:
>>
>> exec 'autocmd BufReadPre *.bat set fileencodings=ucs-bom,cp850,latin1'
>>
>
> I put this in my _vimrc:
>
> autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPre *.bat,*.sys,*.cmd,*.prg,*.ch set
> fileencodings=ucs-bom,cp850,latin1
>
>> Thank you all.
>>
>> Marcio.
>

This won't work if you edit a batch file and then some non-batch file
(*.c, *.htm, *.txt, whatever; even if you look at a Vim helpfile) in the
same Vim session. Since 'fileencodings' is a global-only option, it will
still be "ucs-bom,cp850,latin1" (where the latin1 part will never be
used, since it is after cp850 which is 8-bit and therefore cannot give a
"fail" signal), so Vim will treat that second file (if it has no BOM) as
if it were in cp850 which is probably not what you want.

Maybe

au BufNewFile,BufReadPre *
\ set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
au BufNewFile,BufReadPre
\ *.bat,*.sys,*.cmd,*.prg,*.ch
\ set fencs=ucs-bom,cp850

The autocommands will be run in the order they were defined, so that for
these 5 extensions the second one takes precedence. The first one should
be set to the defaults you want to use for all other files.

Best regards,
Tony.
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