vim: would like it to turn settings on only for certain file types

Question

I\'ve looked at this but it wasn\'t too much help. Maybe I didn\'t read it too well.

Basically what I want is when I open a .txt file the settings:

set          


        

Answer 1

Put this into ~/.vim/ftdetect/text.vim (this path will be slightly different on windows):

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt setfiletype text

Then put this into ~/.vim/ftplugin/text.vim:

setlocal wrap
setlocal linebreak

It's preferable to only do the autocmd once for a filetype, and to separate it from your vimrc file.