Re: set all - each option one line

Andy Wokula wrote:

> Am 15.01.2020 um 22:22 schrieb Erhy:
> > Hello!
> > I want to compare the options set in VIM.
> >
> > Do you know, how to format of set all output
> > that I have *for each option a separate line *?
> >
> > Thank you for tips
> > Erhy
>
> Apparently
> :set
> always (?) produces multi-column output.
> (sounds like one of those little annoyances that others didn't bother
> to ask for years)

How about ":set!" only using one column? Currently ! isn't used and I
can't think of anything we would want to use it for when listing
options.

> You could redirect to a buffer with very small temporary 'columns'
> setting (at least 12), but that's awful.
>
> Or :substitute the (redirected) multi-column output to get single column output:
>
> :%s/ \+\ze\%(no\l\+\%(\s\|$\)\| \S\)/\r/gIe
>
> Obviously the problem is how to not split within option values.
> My example output (not given here) shows a statusline with spaces and
> these don't appear escaped, so one just cannot skip escaped spaces --
> just make it a bit more unlikely to split there.

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