Re: vim filetype off

[Patrick McCarty]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Why on earth do we have a
> filetype off
> set runtimepath
> filetype on
>
> in the suggested .vimrc ?  Those lines should be unnecessary.

I need those lines to work around behavior that (I think) changed in
very recent Vim versions.

Basically, if I remove the "filetype" lines, the "set runtimepath"
occurs too late in the filetype detection sequence to have any effect.
 By turning off filetype detection, modifying the runtimepath, and
re-enabling filetype detection, the new runtimepath will be
recognized.

For background, see this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/c896684d209503e


Thanks,
Patrick