Re: Word definition includes period?

Old problem; you need to upgrade your vim.

C Campbell

> On Apr 1, 2017, at 11:34 PM, Saurabh T <saurabh@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> You're right, for some reason iskeyword has an extra . in it on the Cygwin. I was editing .bashrc at the time. It does not show up on some other file types I tried, so I'll just ignore the problem. Thanks,
>
> saurabh
>
> From: vim_use@googlegroups.com <vim_use@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 1, 2017 9:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: Word definition includes period?
>
> 2017-04-02 3:17 GMT+03:00 Saurabh T <saurabh@hotmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> While using vim 7.4 on cygwin, I noticed that word characters include a
>> period, for example "cw" with cursor on the f of file.html attempts to
>> change the entire file.html rather than just file. I have LANG set to C and
>> "se encoding" shows latin1, and there's not much in vimrc (identical to the
>> one on Linux where this works as expected). What may be the problem here?
>
> $LANG is completely irrelevant, the meaning of word (what is treated
> as a word character) is controlled by `&iskeyword` option. What is
> worse is that there is a number of syntax and ftplugin files which
> think that this is not a user setting, so this option is rather
> filetype-specific.
>
> Note that resetting it may break syntax, need to adjust syntax file to
> use :syn iskeyword. If this is the case it is a bug. Note: :syn
> iskeyword is relatively recent addition (7.4.1142, Jan 2016), you may
> get a difference in the behaviour solely because your Vim is very
> outdated (7.4 was released in Aug 2013).
>
> Also feel free to file a bug report to ftplugin maintainer if filetype
> plugin happens to alter this setting.
>

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