Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2020, 06:56 UTC
Message-ID: <5fd85e2eeab1a_d7c48208f6@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <X9hJenCYkwTmxNjA@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> Ideally we'd combine the autoloader for BufRead and FileType, but it
> seems non-trivial to do so. I think:
> 
>   au BufNewFile,BufRead /path/to/git/* if &filetype == "c" | setl ... | endif
> 
> works, though it's a little clunky, as each line would need to repeat
> it.

Yeah, that works, *temporarily*. If the user has configured ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim, that would override those autocommand settings when the file is reloaded. Which is precisely why the above is not recommended.

> I don't think we need to solve "here's how to trigger some settings
> for some directories" for everyone. We should let them integrate the
> settings as they see fit.

Yeah. But how?

I already explored this at dept, and I arrived at only one sensible option.

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Felipe Contreras