Re: Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.py":

Thank you Gary. It worked now.



> On 03-Apr-2019, at 10:22 AM, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-04-03, 'Arup Rakshit' via vim_use wrote:
>> I am just starting out Vim. I am now making my ~/.vimrc file. But
>> I get error after adding the python specific configuration. The
>> error is:
>>
>> Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.py":
>> E518: Unknown option: set
>>
>> Here is my ~/.vimrc file:
>
> ...
>
>> au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py
>> \ set tabstop=4
>> \ set softtabstop=4
>> \ set shiftwidth=4
>> \ set textwidth=79
>> \ set expandtab
>> \ set autoindent
>> \ set fileformat=unix
>
> That error is because Vim does not see all those set commands as
> being on separate lines--it sees them as on one line. The
> line-continuation operator \ joins its line with the one before it
> as though it and the newline terminating the previous line were not
> there.
>
> Vim sees your autocommand as this one line:
>
> au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py set tabstop=4 set softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set textwidth=79 set expandtab set autoindent set fileformat=unix
>
> It interprets the second "set" as another argument to the first
> "set", i.e., as an option, but there is no 'set' option, so Vim
> issues the error message:
>
> E518: Unknown option: set
>
> One way to fix the problem is to remove all those extra sets, making
> your autocommand look like this.
>
> au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py
> \ set tabstop=4
> \ softtabstop=4
> \ shiftwidth=4
> \ textwidth=79
> \ expandtab
> \ autoindent
> \ fileformat=unix
>
> Another way is to make each of those set commands a separate command
> by separating them with bars, like this.
>
> au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py
> \ set tabstop=4
> \ | set softtabstop=4
> \ | set shiftwidth=4
> \ | set textwidth=79
> \ | set expandtab
> \ | set autoindent
> \ | set fileformat=unix
>
> See:
>
> :help line-continuation
> :help :bar
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
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