Re: Who maintains cobol.vim?

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:56:29 +0000
Andrew Long <andrew.long@mac.com> wrote:

> On 10 Feb 2015, at 15:57, John Culleton wrote:
> > There is an annoying error in cobol.vim when
> > used with the traditional layout (i.e. first
> > 6 columns reserved for a line number and all
> > statements in upper case.) The occurrence of
> > the IF verb causes the statement containing
> > it to be red highlighted as a syntax error.
>
> This may be irrelevant, but...
>
> I've had problems with COBOL.vim if smarttabs
> are switched on, after starting a new line. The
> problem is that the smart tabs don't count
> properly towards working out the column
> settings and so it highlights what *looks* like
> it ought to be a valid line as invalid. I got
> around this by switching off smart tabs in the
> ftdetect.vim script
>
> If it's this problem you should be able to find
> out by looking for hard tab characters where
> there ought to be single space characters?
>
> Regards, Andy
>
>

Can't find ftdetect.vim script. Is there a better
spelling of the name?

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