i've been staring at that all morning and didn't see that -- thx gary i owe you a beer
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:19 PM Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-03-15, tooth pik wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:10 PM Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > > > On 2019-03-15, tooth pik wrote: > > > > i've got > > > > > > > > " vim: set foldmethod=marker > > > > > > > > at the bottom of my ~/.vimrc and for reasons i have yet to discover it > > > > opens up with > > > > foldmethod=manual and > > > > > > > > :verb set fdm? > > > > > > > > tells me nothing about who set it, just that it's manual > > > > > > > > have there been any recent updates to the processing of modelines? > > > > > > > > the modelines option is 5, and i've tried putting it at the top and > > > > bottom, but it still > > > > is being ignored > > > > > > There haven't been any such changes to Vim that I know of, but > > > recent Ubuntu (e.g., 18.04) Vim packages include > > > /usr/share/vim/vim80/debian.vim which includes this: > > > > > > " modelines have historically been a source of security/resource > > > " vulnerabilities -- disable by default, even when 'nocompatible' is > > > set > > > set nomodeline > > > > > > You might try executing > > > > > > :verbose set modeline? > > > > > > to see if that might be the problem. > > > thx, but modeline is set > > OK, now I see the problem. I can reproduce it. The problem is the > syntax of your modeline. Vim supports two forms of modelines. The > second form uses the word "set" and ends with a colon (:), e.g., > > " vim: set foldmethod=marker: > > The first form does not end with a colon, but also does not include > the word "set", e.g., > > " vim: foldmethod=marker > > Change your modeline to either of those two forms and it should work > fine. > > Regards, > Gary > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
