Re: FileTypePre autocmd

On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:36:05 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:04:34 AM UTC-5, Fermat 618 wrote:
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> :setfiletype will not not change the filetype if it's already set

...or so I thought, except :help undo_ftplugin specifically mentions :setfiletype, and :help :setfiletype mentions a specific context of inside a nested autocmd. Experimentation shows that it will in fact override the filetype whenever it's used directly.

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