Re: What sets textwidth=78

On 2015-03-18, porphyry5 wrote:
> On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 12:40:50 PM UTC-7, riesebie wrote:
> > * Graham Lawrence [2015-03-16 11:06 -0700]:
> >
> > > Using Huge vim 7.4 with patch 1-473 on arch linux
> > >
> > > One of the last entries in my .vimrc is
> > > set textwidth=0
> > > which is occasionally overridden by some feature in vim that arbitrarily
> > > sets the textwidth to 78.
> > >
> > > Most of the time this creates no problem, but when I happen to add text to
> > > a .vimrc mapping that exceeds 78 characters, arbitrary line breaks are
> > > introduced into it, which matters a great deal.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what might do this?
> >
> > :help textwidth. grep your vimrc for tw.
> >
> > Elimar
> > --
> > We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
> > -Linus Torvalds
>
> My .vimrc only has my setting of textwidth to 0, but as you
> mentioned vimrc I have also set /etc/vimrc to tw=0 as well. We
> shall see what happens, unfortunately this change to my tw setting
> is a random (and relatively infrequent) event. Time will tell, I
> guess.
>
> However, I do not expect it to solve the problem, as my .vimrc
> will follow /etc/vimrc, and the real problem is that some part of
> vim arbitrarily changes this setting. Most of the time I can
> change and create long lines without incident, because tw is 0.
> But sometimes it is 78.

When it is 78, execute

:verbose set tw?

That will show you where it was set to 78. I know you wrote in
another message that it did not show you where 'tw' was set, but I
suspect that you did not do that when 'tw' was 78.

Regards,
Gary

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