Re: why does showbreak setting works only after _vimrc is reloaded?

> 1. Place an appropriate "scriptencoding" command in your .vimrc, to tell Vim how to read the bytes in the file. For example, "scriptencoding utf-8".
Ben, you are a genius. That fixed it. But I have another question, why would I want to use let instead of set in the suggestion below?
> 2. Use the escape syntax of strings and a :let command, instead of a :set command, somewhere AFTER setting Vim's 'encoding' option. For example:
> let &showbreak="\u2026"

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