Re: change the filetype

On Sunday, November 25, 2012 5:54:34 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2012-11-25, cyboman wrote:
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> > I have a certain set of settings for cpp files. All those settings
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> > are located in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp.vim
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> >
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> > I would like to apply those settings to c files as well. I tried
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> > to put the following code into ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim
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> >
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> > set filetype=cpp
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> >
>
> > but I got the error saying that the nesting is too deep.
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>
>
> I think all you need to do is rename your cpp.vim file to c.vim
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> because $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/cpp.vim executes runtime on
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> ftplugin/c.vim. Therefore your c.vim file will be used by both c
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> and cpp filetypes.
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>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary

Thanks Garry. I put my code in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim

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