Option |
Default |
Description |
alt-tabpos |
noatp |
Controls whether the cursor sits at the
left or right end of the whitespace
representing a TAB character. |
animated |
animated |
Automatically
updates the contents of scratch
buffers when their contents would change. |
autobuffer (ab) |
autobuffer |
Uses "most-recently-used"
style buffering;
the buffers are sorted in order of use.
Otherwise,
buffers remain in
the order in which they were edited. |
autosave (as) |
noautosave |
Automatic file saving.
Writes the file after every
autosavecnt characters of inserted text. |
autosavecnt (ascnt) |
256 |
Specifies
after how many inserted characters
automatic saves take place. |
backspacelimit (bl) |
backspacelimit |
If disabled, then
in insert mode you
can backspace past the point at which the insert began. |
backup-style |
off |
Controls how backup files are created
when writing a file. Possible values are
off for no backups,
.bak for DOS style backups, and
tilde for emacs
style hello.c~ backups under UNIX. |
bcolor |
|
Sets the background color on systems that support it. |
check-modtime |
nocheck-modtime |
Issues a
file newer than buffer warning if the file
has changed since last read or written, and prompts for
confirmation. |
cmode |
off |
A built-in major mode for C code. |
comment-prefix |
^\s*\(\s*[#*>]\)\+ |
Describes the leading part of a line that should be
left alone when reformatting comments.
The default value is good for Makefile,
shell and C comments, and email. |
comments |
^\s*/\?\(\s*[#*>] \)\+/\?\s*$ |
A regular expression defining commented paragraph
delimiters. Its purpose is to preserve paragraphs inside comments
when reformatting. |
dirc |
nodirc |
vile checks
each name when scanning directories
for filename completion. This allows you
to distinguish between directory names and filenames in
the prompt. |
dos |
nodos |
Strips out the
CR from CR-LF pairs when reading files, and puts them back
when writing.
New buffers for non-existent files inherit
the line-style of the operating system, whatever the value of
dos. |
fcolor |
|
Sets the foreground color on systems that
support it. |
fence-begin |
/\* |
Regular expressions for the start and
end of simple,
non-nestable fences, such as C comments. |
fence-end |
\*/ |
fence-if |
^\s*#\s*if |
Regular expression marking the start,
"else if," "else," and end of
line-oriented, nested fences, such as C-preprocessor control lines. |
fence-elif |
^\s*#\s*elif\> |
fence-else |
^\s*#\s*else\> |
fence-fi |
^\s*#\s*endif\> |
fence-pairs |
{ }( )[ ] |
Each pair of characters denotes a set of "fences"
that should be matched with %. |
glob |
!echo %s |
Controls how wildcard characters
(e.g., * and ?) are
treated in prompts for filenames. A value of off
disables expansion, and on uses the internal globber,
which can handle normal shell wildcards and ~
notation.
The default value for UNIX guarantees compatibility with your shell. |
history (hi) |
history |
Logs commands from the colon command line
in the [History] buffer. |
horizscroll (hs) |
horizscroll |
Moving off the end of a long line
shifts the whole screen sideways. If not set, only the current
line shifts. |
linewrap (lw) |
nolinewrap |
Wraps long logical lines onto multiple
screen lines. |
maplonger |
nomaplonger |
The map facility
matches against the longest possible mapped
sequence, not the shortest. |
meta-insert-bindings (mib) |
nomib |
Controls behavior of 8-bit characters during insert. Normally,
key-bindings are only operational when in command mode: when in
insert mode, all characters are self-inserting. If this mode is
on, and a meta-character (i.e., a character with the eighth
bit set) is typed which is bound to a function,
then that function binding will be honored and executed from
within insert mode. Any unbound meta-characters will remain self-inserting. |
mini-edit |
^G |
The character that
toggles the editing mode in the minibuffer. |
mini-hilite (mh) |
reverse |
Defines the highlight attribute to use when the user
toggles the editing mode in the minibuffer. |
popup-choices (pc) |
delayed |
Controls the use of a pop-up window for help in doing
completion. The value is one of
off for no window,
immediate for an immediate pop-up,
and delayed to wait for a second
TAB key. |
preamble (pre) |
|
A regular expression describing the first line of
filenames for which the corresponding major mode will be set. |
resolve-links |
noresolve-links |
If set, vile
fully resolves filenames in cases
where some path components are symbolic links.
This helps avoid
multiple unintentional edits of the same physical
file via different pathnames. |
ruler |
noruler |
Shows the current line and column in the status
line, as well as what percentage of the current buffer's
lines lie in front of the cursor. |
showmode (smd) |
noshowmode |
Display
an indicator on the modeline for insert and replace modes. |
sideways |
0 |
Prompts for a new value for the sideways
scroll offset, which controls by how many characters the
screen scrolls to the left or right. The value of 0
moves the screen by one third. |
suffixes (suf) |
|
A regular expression describing filenames for which the
corresponding major mode will be set. Used as part of the
major mode facility, not by itself. |
tabinsert (ti) |
tabinsert |
Allow the physical insertion of tab characters into
the buffer. If turned off (notabinsert),
vile will never insert a TAB into a buffer;
instead it will always insert the appropriate number of spaces. |
tagignorecase (tc) |
notagignorecase |
Makes tag searches ignore case. |
taglength (tl) |
0 |
Defines number of characters that are significant for tags.
Default (zero) means that all characters are significant.
This does not effect tags picked up from the cursor,
they are always matched exactly.
(This is different from the other editors.) |
tagrelative (tr) |
tagrelative |
When using
a tags file in another directory, filenames in
that tags file are considered to be relative to
the directory where the tags file is. |
tags |
tags |
A space separated list of files in which to look up
tag references. |
tagword (tw) |
notagword |
Uses the whole word under the cursor for
the tag lookup, not just the sub-word starting at the current
cursor position. |
undolimit (ul) |
10 |
Limits how many changes may be undone.
The value zero means "no limit." |
unprintable-as-octal (uo) |
nounprintable-as-octal |
Displays non-printing characters with the
eighth bit set in octal. Otherwise, uses hexadecimal.
Non-printing characters whose eighth bit is not set are
always displayed in control character notation. |
visual-matches |
none |
Controls highlighting of all matching occurrences of
a search pattern. The possible values are
none for no highlighting, or
underline,
bold, and
reverse for those kinds of highlighting.
Colors may also be used on systems that support it. |
xterm-mouse |
noxterm-mouse |
Allows use of the mouse from
inside an xterm.
See the online help for details. |