When I edit a python file in vim, formatoptions is set to tcq for some reason making it automatically break long lines in code which sometimes may break the code as well. This is in contrary to other code filetypes such as c or java where automatic line breaks only occur in comments. I can disable this by removing t from formatoptions but I was wondering why the default behavior is set to this for python files?
Also where are formatoptions are set for different filetypes?
Use :verbose set <option> to see where it's set.
If it's in a default file: don't touch it, just set the correct value in your ~/.vimrc.
If it's in some third party script: see why it's set that way, try the desired value, see if it breaks anything.
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I'm dumb as a rock. Do you hear me? Dumb. As. A. Rock.
tcq is simply the default value of formatoptions. I guess ~/.vimrc is a (non-intuitive) way for Vim to say that.
The default Python ftplugin doesn't set it to another value so you'll have to do that yourself. Here is what I have in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/python.vim:
setlocal tabstop=4
setlocal shiftwidth=4
setlocal softtabstop=4
setlocal smartindent
setlocal formatoptions=croql
setlocal cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,try,except,finally,def,class
setlocal omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete
~/.vimrc but I don't have anything set in it$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/c.vim but for python it says .~/.vimrc which is not true, or at least it doesn't give me anything useful because it's not in that file.
~/.vimrc.~/.vimrc a symlink to the vimrc in your repo? I see you have activated modelines, do the python files have modelines?vimrc. (3)It happens with python files without modelines. (4)Can you try it on your vim to see if you have the same problem? I highly doubt this is related to my vim configuration.
twandwmset. it sounds like a bug to me or I just don't see the point..