Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

vile 9.6 Options

vile 9.6 has 167 options (called “modes” in vile), which are denoted universal, buffer, or window modes according to their use. There are also 101 environment variables, which are more useful in scripts than for direct user manipulation.^[75] Not all are available on every platform; some apply only to X11 or Win32.

Table B-5 shows the compiled-in default values for the most important of vile’s options. The initialization scripts, such as vileinit.rc, override several of those values. Most options described in Table B-1 are not repeated here.

Table B-5. vile 9.6 set options

Option	Default	Description
alt-tabpos (atp)	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 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.
autocolor (ac)	0	Automatic syntax coloring. If set to zero, automatic syntax coloring is disabled. Otherwise, it should be set to a small positive integer that represents the number of milliseconds to wait for a “quiet interval” before invoking the autocolor-hook hook.
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.
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