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Asked: 2026-06-13T19:44:22+00:00

In my .vimrc I have the following line: set textwidth=80 However, when editing the

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In my .vimrc I have the following line:

set textwidth=80

However, when editing the files: README-SETUP and README-INSTALL I would like vim to have textwidth set to 60.

I think this can be done for specific file types using autocmd, but how would I do it for specific files?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could do this like so:

    autocmd BufReadPre README*.txt setlocal textwidth=60

    Or you could list the files one by one:

    autocmd BufReadPre README-SETUP setlocal textwidth=60
autocmd BufReadPre README-INSTALL setlocal textwidth=60

    EDIT: As ZyX points out, prefer setlocal over set for options like this you really don’t want all buffers having that textwidth for the duration of the session.

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