Re: A question about autocommands

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025, Gabor Urban wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I would like to have some hints about my issue.
>
> I am using vim 9.1 on an MS Win 11 Home (64 bit). I have downloaded a
> syntax file from the homage (todo.vim) and set up to work for me.
>
> I added to my _vimr file:
> au BufRead,BufNewFile *.todo setfiletype todo
> au BufRead,BufNewFile *.tdx setfiletype todo
>
> and that works fine. Recently I have decided to load a specific file
> on startup so added:
> autocmd VimEnter * silent edit C:/PATH/todo.tdx
>
> The file is loaded, but no proper highlight is done. The only reason
> could be, that the two autocommands do not work together.
>
> Any ideas are welcome, and thanks in advance,

Try to add ++nested to your BufRead autocommand, see :h autocmd-nested

Thanks,
Christian
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