Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition

C.5. vile 8.0 Options

vile 8.0 has a total of 92 options that affect its behavior. Table 3.5 summarizes the most important ones. Most options described in Table 3.1 are not repeated here.

Table C.5. vile 8.0 Set Options

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 ...