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 wrap set linebreak 

are turned on. How might I go about doing that?

Thanks in advance.

Also, I'm using XP.

Answer 1

My answer to that question still applies:

Put autocmd commands based on the file suffix in your ~/.vimrc

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile   *.txt set wrap linebreak 

As Luc says, you might prefer to

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile   *.txt setlocal wrap linebreak 

if you're likely to open txt and non-txt files at the same time.

Answer 2

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.