Re: change the filetype

On 2012-11-25, cyboman wrote:
> I have a certain set of settings for cpp files. All those settings
> are located in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp.vim
>
> I would like to apply those settings to c files as well. I tried
> to put the following code into ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim
>
> set filetype=cpp
>
> but I got the error saying that the nesting is too deep.

I think all you need to do is rename your cpp.vim file to c.vim
because $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/cpp.vim executes runtime on
ftplugin/c.vim. Therefore your c.vim file will be used by both c
and cpp filetypes.

Regards,
Gary

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