How to disable this plugin in Fugitive status buffer?

[Andrea Cardaci]

Here's a minimal .vimrc containing my attempt:

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'

Plugin 'ntpeters/vim-better-whitespace'
let g:better_whitespace_filetypes_blacklist = ['fugitive']
let g:better_whitespace_enabled = 1

Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive'

call vundle#end()

Reproduce it with the following:

cd $(mktemp -d)
git init
echo >foo
git add foo
git commit -m foo
echo >>foo
vim

Then, inside Vim, :G, <C-N>, =. The outcome is:

[Cimbali]

What's the &filetype in this buffer?

[Andrea Cardaci]

:set filetype?
filetype=fugitive

[Andrea Cardaci]

OK this happens in VIM 8.1 (macOS) but not on VIM 8.2 (Homebrew).

[Andrea Cardaci]

OK this happens in VIM 8.1 (macOS) but not on VIM 8.2 (Homebrew).

Well, no that's not exactly true, it's sufficient to refresh the content of the Fugitive buffer as a last step (:e) to trigger the issue again, even with VIM 8.2.

[Cimbali]

So this is possibly similar to #108. Some corner cases of setting the filetype slip by our detection. In particular we don’t re-detect on new filetype events, of which there might be several. I think the main reason for that is to not override the user’s manual calls to Enable/DisableWhitespace (especially when set from an autocommand e.g. matching on some paths). There might be other reasons that I can’t recall right now.

Anyways, maybe the workaround there also works for you, in the mean time:

au FileType fugitive DisableWhitespace

[Andrea Cardaci]

Thanks it actually works.

[Cimbali]

Closing as this issue is tracked in #108