Bug#517532: vim: au FileType mail doesn't work anymore?

[James Vega]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 06:26:13PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:09:21AM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > Because of #379107 I have this in my vimrc file:
> > > :let &termencoding = &encoding
> > > set encoding=utf-8
> > > au FileType mail setlocal fenc=latin1
> > >
> > > However that doesn't seem to work anymore, and the fileencoding is now 
> > > set to utf-8 instead of latin1.
> > 
> > From a quick test, using an autocmd to set 'fenc' to latin1 works for
> > me.  Could you try ":verbose set fenc?" from the mail file?
> 
> It says utf-8.  I've looked at that before sending that mail.

The important bit was that using :verbose will tell you which file last
changed the setting.  I'll assume (based on the rest of your email)
yours didn't show a filename which means it was just auto-detected.

> > > I also wanted to set other options for mail now, but it doesn't seem to 
> > > have any effect.  So my guess was that detections of the filetype was 
> > > broken.  I use mutt so my files look like  
> > > /tmp/mutt-intrepid-1000-28242-16.
> > 
> > Testing in my Lenny chroot, that file pattern does get recognized as
> > 'mail' filetype.  ":verbose set filetype?" will show what filetype it is
> > set to and which script set it.
> 
> I get:
>   filetype=
> 
> It seems it doesn't recoginize any filetype.

I'll bet that ":filetype" says filetype detection is OFF.  As of
1:7.1.314-3+lenny1/2:7.2c.000-1 filetype detection is no longer enabled
by $VIMRUNTIME/debian.vim as doing so makes it impossible for the user
to make certain configuration changes.

You'll want to re-add "filetype plugin indent on" (or whatever
combination of the filetype features you want) to your ~/.vimrc.  That
should solve all the issues raised in this bug.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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