What sets textwidth=78

[Graham Lawrence]

Using Huge vim 7.4 with patch 1-473 on arch linux

One of the last entries in my .vimrc is

  set textwidth=0

which is occasionally overridden by some feature in vim that arbitrarily sets the textwidth to 78.

Most of the time this creates no problem, but when I happen to add text to a .vimrc mapping  that exceeds 78 characters, arbitrary line breaks are introduced into it, which matters a great deal.

Does anyone know what might do this?

--

Graham Lawrence

[nekneknek...@gmail.com]

:verbose set textwidth

itchyny

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Graham Lawrence <gl0...@gmail.com> [2015-03-16 11:06 -0700]:

:help textwidth. grep your vimrc for tw.

Elimar
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[porphyry5]

On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 11:12:10 AM UTC-7, nekneknek...@gmail.com wrote:
> :verbose set textwidth
>
> itchyny

I thank you for your help, but all this shows me is the current setting of textwidth.

[porphyry5]

My .vimrc only has my setting of textwidth to 0, but as you mentioned vimrc I have also set /etc/vimrc to tw=0 as well. We shall see what happens, unfortunately this change to my tw setting is a random (and relatively infrequent) event. Time will tell, I guess.

However, I do not expect it to solve the problem, as my .vimrc will follow /etc/vimrc, and the real problem is that some part of vim arbitrarily changes this setting. Most of the time I can change and create long lines without incident, because tw is 0. But sometimes it is 78.

[Ben Fritz]

Wrong.

This shows the current setting, *AND WHAT SCRIPT MADE THAT SETTING HAPPEN*.

The next time you see a textwidth setting you don't want, run this command to see where it was set to that value.

Then it is easy to zap the bad setting. It would be much harder to prevent or overwrite the setting without knowing what is setting it in the first place.

My guess is you have a filetype plugin or autocmd firing. But I obviously have no way of knowing which one that might be on YOUR system.

[Gary Johnson]

On 2015-03-18, porphyry5 wrote:
> On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 12:40:50 PM UTC-7, riesebie wrote:

> > * Graham Lawrence [2015-03-16 11:06 -0700]:

When it is 78, execute

:verbose set tw?

That will show you where it was set to 78. I know you wrote in
another message that it did not show you where 'tw' was set, but I
suspect that you did not do that when 'tw' was 78.

Regards,
Gary

[porphyry5]

On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 12:18:46 PM UTC-7, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 1:28:49 PM UTC-5, porphyry5 wrote:
> > On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 11:12:10 AM UTC-7, nekneknek...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > :verbose set textwidth
> > >
> > > itchyny
> >
> > I thank you for your help, but all this shows me is the current setting of textwidth.
>
> Wrong.
>
> This shows the current setting, *AND WHAT SCRIPT MADE THAT SETTING HAPPEN*.

NOT ONE OF MINE. I have absolutely no interest in a limited textwidth under any circumstances.

>
> The next time you see a textwidth setting you don't want, run this command to see where it was set to that value.

Which command?

>
> Then it is easy to zap the bad setting. It would be much harder to prevent or overwrite the setting without knowing what is setting it in the first place.
>
> My guess is you have a filetype plugin or autocmd firing. But I obviously have no way of knowing which one that might be on YOUR system.

Here is the entirety of my .vimrc. All the set and autocommands are in a group at the end of it.
map __ :xa<CR>
" Directory and file access
map _D :e /mnt/1/Documents<CR>
map _E :e /mnt/1/Documents/Essays<CR>
map _H :e /home/g<CR>
map _J :e /mnt/1/Scripts/junk.sh<CR>
map _L :e /mnt/1/MyBooks/Programming/Linux<CR>
map _P :e /mnt/1/MyBooks/Pdfs<CR>
map _R :e /mnt/1/Redo<CR>
map _S :e /mnt/1/Scripts/<CR>
map _T :e /mnt/1/Scripts/test.sh<CR>
map _V :e ~/.vim/<CR>
" Convert .ass to .srt. Put cursor on start of line before 1st dialog line
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map _b :buffers<CR>
" ConcatenateTitles and accumulate them in register z
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:s/^\s*/#/
:exe ':normal 0mm ' . a:a . 'JA <'
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normal dd
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let pars = input("Type your parameters, Tab separated, no quotes")
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normal guu
exe ':s/\-/ /ge'
exe ':s/[^a-z ]//ge'
exe ':s/\<[a-z]/\u&/ge'
exe ':s/ //ge'
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set nopaste
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call inputsave()
let g:Inp = input("enter search pattern: ")
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[porphyry5]

Thank you, by a happy coincidence it has occurred again, and
:verbose set tw?
reveals the culprit to be /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/vim.vim
maintained by one Bram Moolenaar
rather incontrovertibly proving my claim that this thing was set by vim itself.

Thank you again, its easy to fix.

[Tim Chase]

On 2015-03-21 08:57, porphyry5 wrote:
>>>> :verbose set textwidth

>> The next time you see a textwidth setting you don't want, run
>> this command to see where it was set to that value.
>
> Which command?

The ":verbose set textwidth". Note the "verbose" as it's what
instructs Vim to tell you what last set it.

My guess is that it's some plugin/ftplugin that gets activated for
certain files, so your default is 'tw' being 0, but then the plugin
(which the ":verbose set" command above will identify) changes it to
78.

So recreate the scenario in which the tw=78 happens, then issue the
":verbose set" command to find out who the guilty plugin is.

-tim

[Tim Chase]

On 2015-03-21 10:20, Graham Lawrence wrote:
> Thanks for your response, it was hard to track down even with
> the :verbose ... command, because the condition occurs erratically,
> but it did happen this morning and the command revealed it was
> caused by /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/vim.vim, which I think can
> reasonably be regarded as a function of vim itself.
>
> I just use the standard package issued by arch, any additional
> functionality I want I write myself, and the last thing I would
> ever do is limit the line length.

My understanding based on what you give (modulo any Arch-specific
changes that aren't present on my Debian Stable box with 7.3 stock,
though I'd expect that Arch sticks much more to the native package
compared to the modifications that Debian likes to make to packages)
that

1) this should only happen when editing *.vim files or you manually

:set ft=vim

2) this setting should only persist in vim files since it
uses :setlocal rather than :set (which would persist across
newly-opened windows)

3) it checks if a 'tw' is already set and doesn't mess with it if
it's non-zero. Thus, you might be able to hack it with something
like

:set tw=2147483647 " the maximum line length for non-DOS vim

so that it's effectively unlimited, but it prevents that ":setlocal
textwidth=78" from triggering.

When undone, it should un-set the local version, reverting back to
the global option.

-tim

[glts]

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 5:12:17 PM UTC+1, porphyry5 wrote:
> (...)

>
> Thank you, by a happy coincidence it has occurred again, and
> :verbose set tw?
> reveals the culprit to be /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/vim.vim
> maintained by one Bram Moolenaar
> rather incontrovertibly proving my claim that this thing was set by vim itself.
>
> Thank you again, its easy to fix.

Arguably this is a mistake in the vim ftplugin.

For most programming languages line length is just user preference. Most
ftplugins don't set 'textwidth', and perhaps the vim ftplugin shouldn't
do so neither. I think it's fair to say that many people will find a
setting of 78 inappropriate.


--
David

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* glts <676c...@gmail.com> [2015-03-22 02:21 -0700]:

> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 5:12:17 PM UTC+1, porphyry5 wrote:
> > (...)
> >
> > Thank you, by a happy coincidence it has occurred again, and
> > :verbose set tw?
> > reveals the culprit to be /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/vim.vim
> > maintained by one Bram Moolenaar
> > rather incontrovertibly proving my claim that this thing was set by vim itself.
> >
> > Thank you again, its easy to fix.
>
> Arguably this is a mistake in the vim ftplugin.

It turns out that vim.vim sets tw=78 only if the user has set tw=0:

" Format comments to be up to 78 characters long
if &tw == 0
setlocal tw=78
endif

It might not be a mistake, though.

Elimar
--
You cannot propel yourself forward by
patting yourself on the back.

[toothpik]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 02:16:09PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * glts <676c...@gmail.com> [2015-03-22 02:21 -0700]:

> > On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 5:12:17 PM UTC+1, porphyry5 wrote:
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > Thank you, by a happy coincidence it has occurred again, and
> > > :verbose set tw?
> > > reveals the culprit to be /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/vim.vim
> > > maintained by one Bram Moolenaar
> > > rather incontrovertibly proving my claim that this thing was set by vim itself.
> > >
> > > Thank you again, its easy to fix.
> >
> > Arguably this is a mistake in the vim ftplugin.

> It turns out that vim.vim sets tw=78 only if the user has set tw=0:

> " Format comments to be up to 78 characters long
> if &tw == 0
> setlocal tw=78
> endif

> It might not be a mistake, though.

a comment above that code implies the textwidth adjustment is there so
comments will be nicely formatted, but (and it sure looks like a bug to
me) the setting applies to the whole buffer, not just the comments

if we were voting on this I'd vote to remove it

--
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[Gevisz]

Of course, it should be removed, unless a humiliation on users is indented by design.

[porphyry5]

Nice play on dyslexia!

[Gevisz]

I've meant "intended by design".

> Nice play on dyslexia!

Have not got your joke.

I also quite irritated by this persistent change from tw=0 to tw=78 sometimes.

[Christian Brabandt]

On Mo, 23 Mär 2015, Gevisz wrote:

> I also quite irritated by this persistent change from tw=0 to tw=78 sometimes.

Create an autocommand:

au FileType vim :set tw=0

Alternatively, use a after ftplugin like this:
http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-26.6

Best,
Christian
--
Glück ist Scharfsinn für Gelegenheiten und die Fähigkeit sie zu
nutzen.
-- Samuel Goldwyn (eigentl. Goldfish)

[Gevisz]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:43:04 +0100 Christian Brabandt <cbl...@256bit.org> wrote:

> On Mo, 23 Mär 2015, Gevisz wrote:
>
> > I also quite irritated by this persistent change from tw=0 to tw=78 sometimes.
>
> Create an autocommand:
>
> au FileType vim :set tw=0
>
> Alternatively, use a after ftplugin like this:
> http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-26.6
>
> Best,
> Christian

Thank you, Chistian. Your tips are always useful.

But so far, I have already found the place where tw was set to 78 in my case (and deleted it :).

Hopefully, it will be enough to get rid of this situation in the future.

If not, I will try your suggestion.

[toothpik]

the next update to the vim.vim in the runtime ftplugin folder will wipe
out any changes you make to that module, which is why we are
recommending creating an after directory to hold your override -- it is
bad practice to change anything in the runtime directory

no update from Bram will ever touch anything in your
~/.vim/after/ftplugin directory

[Gevisz]

Thank you for explanation, I will take it into account,
but in my case I was disturbed by setting tw=78 that happened
not in vim.vim but in my local .vimrc (in the part of it that
remained from the original .vimrc that has been installed
by default, sorry to accept it). Somehow and sometimes it
overided the settings I set in a ~/.vim/ftplugin/myfiletype.vim

I have found out it due to the
:verbose set tw
tip from this thread.

P.S. Just now had a look into my ~/.vimrc again.
Now the corresponding line looks like
autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=0
It is very similar to that was proposed by Christian.

[porphyry5]

My apologies, I assumed you were making a word-play in the same vein as the joke "dyslexics untie", rather than it being a typo.