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jeswang
jeswang

Reputation: 1027

In vim, why my autocmd setfiletype command not working?

In my .vimrc I add this,

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.markdown setfiletype octopress

But it seems not working because after I open a xxx.markdown file and input the command setfiletype octopress everything works fine.

Here is my intact .vimrc

set nocompatible
syntax on
filetype off
colorscheme desert
set nu
set mouse=a
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle/
call vundle#rc()
Bundle 'gmarik/vundle'
filetype plugin indent on    

Bundle 'vim-octopress'
autocmd FileType markdown setfiletype octopress

Hope someone can help me and tell me how to debug this thing...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 10561

Answers (3)

user10382642
user10382642

Reputation: 

filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
au FileType htm,html,php,css setl ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et

Upvotes: 0

John Szakmeister
John Szakmeister

Reputation: 47122

I don't see this:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.markdown setfiletype octopress

I only see this at the end:

autocmd FileType markdown setfiletype octopress

I think fixing that will fix you issue.

Update:

A couple more things to consider. First, the Markdown-syntax plugin sets the filetype to be mkd, not markdown. This doesn't seem to work correctly either:

autocmd FileType mkd setfiletype octopress

But this does:

au FileType mkd set filetype=octopress

...And that makes sense now. setfiletype won't set the file type if it's already been set. Since it was already flagged as being of type mkd, it wasn't being updated to the new file type.

Upvotes: 5

jeswang
jeswang

Reputation: 1027

It's because setfiletype ... but only if not done yet in a sequence of (nested) autocommands.

Doc about setfiletype function

Upvotes: 0

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