Re: vim filetype off

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:15:36AM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Hmm.  I'd prefer doing
  set runtimepath+=
  syntax on
since that's IMO more understandable.  According to that thread,
it will have the same effect.

Cheers,
- Graham