It is a bad idea to change 'shell' and 'cmdheight', however temporary, in tips like these, because it distracts the user from the important parts of the script. Also, setting 'shell' to "sh" renders this tip unusable for Windows. It is also quite silly to use several autocmds, and inadvertently depending on Vim executing them in the same order they were defined, to perform a sequence of commands. Use :|s or :functions instead. Unnecessarily using :set instead of :setlocal is now considered a felony in several countries. (Spiiph 17:40, 26 December 2008 (UTC))