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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 14270

Is Vim reading my html.vim file when I open a Markdown file?

I have a file ~/.vim/ftplug/markdown.vim that contains these directives:

    setlocal tabstop=4
    setlocal shiftwidth=4
    setlocal softtabstop=4
    setlocal expandtab

I also have an html.vim file that contains these directives:

    setlocal tabstop=2
    setlocal shiftwidth=2
    setlocal softtabstop=2
    setlocal expandtab

I'm finding that whenever I edit a .md file, I can do ":set sw=?" and see that it's set to 2, not 4, as I would expect. This holds true for the other settings as well. I suspect that Vim is also reading my html.vim file when I open a markdown file. Is that what's happening? And if it is, is there any way I can tell Vim to just read the markdown.vim file and ignore the html.vim file whenever I open a .md file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 84

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172590

Yes, the markdown filetype plugin script ($VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/markdown.vim) sources (kind of "inherits from") the html filetype, presumably because Markdown allows inline HTML.

In order to customize stuff like indent settings, put your commands into the after directory; i.e. ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim. As these follow later in the 'runtimepath', they are read last, and therefore can override the default settings.

Upvotes: 1

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