Re: What sets textwidth=78

* 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.

Elimar
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