Re: What sets textwidth=78

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 5:12:17 PM UTC+1, porphyry5 wrote:
> (...)
>
> Thank you, by a happy coincidence it has occurred again, and
> :verbose set tw?
> reveals the culprit to be /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/vim.vim
> maintained by one Bram Moolenaar
> rather incontrovertibly proving my claim that this thing was set by vim itself.
>
> Thank you again, its easy to fix.

Arguably this is a mistake in the vim ftplugin.

For most programming languages line length is just user preference. Most
ftplugins don't set 'textwidth', and perhaps the vim ftplugin shouldn't
do so neither. I think it's fair to say that many people will find a
setting of 78 inappropriate.


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David

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