Differences between version 8 and predecessor to the previous major change of .vimrc.
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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Thursday, November 4, 2004 11:33:52 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Sunday, April 25, 2004 5:27:16 am | by NoXy | Revert |
@@ -10,4 +10,13 @@
" Vim 5+ comes with syntax highlighting for many languages, enable it if available
if has("syntax")
syntax on
endif
+ set background=dark " better syntax colours for black terminals
+ set encoding=utf-8 " you really should be using utf-8 now
+ set termencoding=utf-8 " ditto
+ set fileencoding= " defaults to latin1 otherwise, and converts bytes on read
+ set fileencodings= " defaults to "latin1,utf-8" otherwise...
+
+Newer version of Vim (6+ perhaps) can automatically detect the correct syntax highlighting and indenting scheme that should be used for a file. Using the newer version of this (previously only file extensions were consulted) is a simple as putting the following command in your [.vimrc]:
+
+ filetype indent on " Newer indent features
