Re: How can I write an autocmd-pattern that _excludes_ a single filetype?

On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 1:07:34 AM UTC-6, Ivan wrote:
> I'm trying to write an autocommand that triggers for all filetypes except "netrw". I have a few candidate patterns that seem to work at the command line, but I can't seem to translate them into working patterns for the autocommand.
>
> The command line versions:
> ^\(\(.*netrw.*\)\@!.\)*$
> ^\(.*netrw\)\@!.*$
> \<\(.*netrw\)\@!.*\>
>
> :h file-pattern describes the syntax for matching filenames, so I tried translating the above patterns assuming that it matches filetypes the same way. But nothing I've tried works so far.
>
> Is this possible?

The easier way to exclude a single filetype is to check the value of the 'filetype' option in a globally matching autocmd:

autocmd FileType * if &filetype!=#'netrw' | call DoSomething() | endif

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