Re: What sets textwidth=78

On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:46:01 -0500 toothpik <toothpik6@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 02:16:09PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > * glts <676c7473@gmail.com> [2015-03-22 02:21 -0700]:
>
> > > 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.
>
> > It turns out that vim.vim sets tw=78 only if the user has set tw=0:
>
> > " Format comments to be up to 78 characters long
> > if &tw == 0
> > setlocal tw=78
> > endif
>
> > It might not be a mistake, though.
>
> a comment above that code implies the textwidth adjustment is there so
> comments will be nicely formatted, but (and it sure looks like a bug to
> me) the setting applies to the whole buffer, not just the comments
>
> if we were voting on this I'd vote to remove it
>

Of course, it should be removed, unless a humiliation on users is indented by design.

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