On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Justin Lebar <justin.le...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Are there any common installations of vi/vim that actually honor >> modelines anymore? The ones on the Linux distros that I used >> stopped doing so as a security measure.
Mine (vanilla Ubuntu 12.10) does. I had to |set modelines=2| for it to work with Mozilla code. Some context: I really hate files that mix 2 and 4 space tabs. I've caused such mismatches in the past (e.g. xpcom/base/nsMemoryReporterManager.cpp) and modelines can prevent that. I recently enabled them and have found them very useful, even with the spotty coverage that we have (many files lack them). That's why I'm looking closely at this. > If we were to set tabstop=8, I think we'd want to set softtabstop=2 > (or 4, depending on the file), so the "tab" key would continue to > shift 2 spaces. If you enable |smarttab| then |sw|'s value dictates the behaviour of the Tab key at the start of a line. But putting sts in would be reasonable for those that don't have |smarttab| set. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
