On 26/giu/2013, at 18:21, Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 26, 2013, at 3:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 01:42, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 5:53 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> That is strange, since I was using vi to edit this port file.
>>> Any idea what I could to force vi to conform to these settings when saving 
>>> the file?
>> 
>> I am not sure! I don't know how vi handles modelines or whitespace. I just 
>> noticed that the formatting of the commit email was strange, and when I 
>> opened the Portfile in my editor, I saw the mix of tabs and spaces.
> 
> I think modelines are only checked when you open a file. The easiest thing to 
> do when creating a new port is probably to save it with just the modeline and 
> then reopen it.

That is correct. However, you just need to do a :e % to reread the file, no 
need to relaunch vim! Also, modeline is not automatically applied (vim won't 
convert tabs to spaces to adhere to the modeline by itself); you need to issue 
a :retab command.

> 
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