Disabling syntax highlighting in a specific window in neovim

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I'm having an issue with spell highlighting in my neovim configuration. I'd like spellchecking to be enabled and syntax highlighting to be off when I'm editing markdown and text files, and I can get it to work manually. However, when I try to automate this using ftplugin, the changes don't apply.

In my init.vim, I have

syntax on

Opening any file has intended behavior, syntax highlighting is on.

In ftplugin/markdown.vim, I have:

setlocal formatoptions=1
setlocal linebreak
setlocal spell spelllang=en
setlocal statusline+=\ w:%{WordCount()},
setlocal syntax=off

All other options apply as intended except for syntax options. I know this isn't an issue with spellchecking not working, as I can still see the SpellBad highlighting when setting manually.

Setting setlocal syntax=off manually works fine, I'm just stumped as to why it doesn't apply inside the ftplugin. Any ideas?

system information:

  • nvim v0.4.3
  • Zorin OS 16
neovim
1 Answers

if its a filetype plugin, then everything you got in the markdown.vim should be applied only to the filetype markdown, right?

so try this:

set formatoptions=1
set linebreak
set spell spelllang=en
set statusline+=\ w:%{WordCount()},
set syntax=off

i am deducing from your situation (setlocal works manually, but not in ftplugin) that setlocal works only from within vim (as a command). makes sense?

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