Re: Resolved: How to set selectmode?

Great!

That actually explains it.

I hope, I don't frustrate with my not so clever questions.

I did read the help-files though, but only now after re-reading them, I understand the mistakes I made..

Still a Vim-Newby..

Need to do some Vim-Golfing!

Thank you very much everyone for your kind help!

Asis

2011/7/16 Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com>

On 07/16/2011 06:38 AM, Asis Hallab wrote:

I do not understand, why the arguments have to be passed
without the "-char surrounding them, though Vim-Documentation
states selectmode and keymodel are comma separated lists of
strings.

There are two issues:

quotes: vim treats the things that follow the assignment as a literal terminated by a newline or space, so the quotes aren't needed.  This manifests itself below where it tries to treat the space as a separator for a subsequent option.

manipulating a list of options: it's best to add/remove the options individually using the "+=", "^=" and "-=" operators for the option.

 :help add-option-flags

Also putting

set selectmode = key
set keymodel = startsel

in my .vimrc (Note the whitespaces surrounding the equality-signs.), yields
an error, when starting vim:
"
Error detected while processing .vimrc:
line   28:
E518: Unknown option: startsel  key=  key=  key=  key=

The help about the spaces is detailed both at

 :help :set-args
 :help option-backslash

Hope that helps clear up some of the confusion.

-tim

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