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I'm experiecing the most annoying thing ever: when I edit a markdown file, asterisk characters are hidden by default.
If I set on an open buffer :set conceallevel=0, asterisks shows up as they should, but if I put this conf in my init.vim file, it does not work anymore.
How to solve that? And more important, is there a way to know which plugin override my configuration?
Thank you.
To help answer your original question, you can check where a setting was last set with the :verbose command.
:verbose set conceallevel
This will display a message similar to:
conceallevel=2
Last set from ~/.vim/plugged/indentLine/after/plugin/indentLine.vim
Note that :verbose simply runs a command with a specified verbosity, so if you wish to check something like the number setting, you'll need to run :verbose set number? (with the ?, otherwise it will just turn the setting on). Check :h :verbose for more.
Ok, I found the plugin involved into this: is indentLine.
It is reported in its README: it does not work if conceallevel is not set to 1 or 2, so it set this parameter to 2 by default.
The side effect is that markdown files are terribly displayed, and you cannot edit them confortably...
I found it out debugging my init.vim thanks to lsrdg link suggestion.
Update: I solved my problem avoiding IndentLine to start for Markdown files, putting the following in my init.vim:
autocmd FileType markdown let g:indentLine_enabled=0
Like @caneta, the indentLine plugin was the culprit for me too. I solved it by disabling it for markdown files like this:
let g:indentLine_fileTypeExclude = ['markdown']
vimwiki also sets conceallevel as well:
*g:vimwiki_conceallevel*
In Vim 7.3 'conceallevel' is local to the current window, thus if you open a
Vimwiki buffer in a new tab or window, it would be set to the default value.
Vimwiki sets 'conceallevel' to g:vimwiki_conceallevel every time a Vimwiki
buffer is entered.
With default settings, Vimwiki conceals one-character markers, shortens long
URLs and hides markers and URL for links that have a description.
Default: 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*g:vimwiki_conceal_onechar_markers*
Control the concealment of one-character markers.
Setting 'conceal_onechar_markers' to 0 will show the markers, overriding
whatever value is set in |g:vimwiki_conceallevel|
Default: 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you don't want Vimwiki to conceal markers, add the following line to your .vimrc:
let g:vimwiki_conceallevel=0
Or create a Toggle mapping:
nnoremap <Leader>c :let &cole=(&cole == 2) ? 0 : 2 <bar> echo 'conceallevel ' . &cole <CR>
I am using the abbreviated form of conceallevel cole to make my line shorter
We can also test if the plugin indentline is loaded and then...
if match(&runtimepath, 'indentline') != -1
let g:indentLine_fileTypeExclude = ['markdown']
endif
conceallevel=0on the open buffer: asterisks appear and no more bold text. The latter is the default I want, but if I put it in myinit.vimit does not work. Withnvim -u NONE -Nit works like expected: I can see asterisks.augroup filetype_markdown autocmd! autocmd FileType md setlocal conceallevel=0 augroup ENDinit.vimand resourced or reopened neovim?