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

[James Vega]

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?

> 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.

> But I also just tried "set fenc=latin1" in my vimrc file, but that 
> doesn't seem to have any effect when editing non-empty files either, it 
> only seems to have an effect on empty files.  If the file already has 
> ascii text in it, it will always set fenc to utf-8 it seems.

From :help 'fenc

  When reading a file 'fileencoding' will be set from 'fileencodings'.
  To read a file in a certain encoding it won't work by setting
  'fileencoding', use the |++enc| argument.  One exception: when
  'fileencodings' is empty the value of 'fileencoding' is used.
  For a new file the global value of 'fileencoding' is used.

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