Re: Question born from pure curiosity...

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote:
> 2016-07-31 16:00 GMT+03:00 Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com>:
> > 2016-07-31 10:31 GMT+03:00 <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> this NOT meant as implicit or explicit critism, complain
> >> or what else...
> >>
> >> Its just interest in vim and driven by curiosity... :)
> >>
> >> To set an option or feature inside vim one do
> >>
> >> : set <option>=<value>
> >>
> >> But why it is
> >>
> >> :colorscheme <value>
> >
> > :colorscheme is *not* an option. It is a shortcut to `runtime
> > colors/<value>.vim` with some more work (e.g. `doautocmd ColorScheme
> > <value>` or dealing with g:colors_name).
>
> I would rather ask why &syntax or &filetype are options: setting them
> does similar things as :colorscheme or :compiler (note: this is also
> not an option).

And then there's :set filestype vs. :setfiletype.

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Eric Christopherson

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