I'm running a SuSE system 10.3 and am wondering if they corrupted vim or if there is some other logical reason why root can't read modelines.
I use modelines in my system config files to change defaults. I know that at some point a default line of set modelines=0 was set near the end of /etc/vimrc I commented it out (1st), and later tried explicitly setting it to the default (5). I have the same .vimrc, in my ~root as in my ~user dir. I EVEN set HOME (for root) = ~user, and ran vim so it would use my ~user settings -- it DID, at least use the .viminfo, since when I opened my testfile (created testfile /tmp/syslog) -- a copy of a logrotate.d/<configfile>) The 1st modeline I tried was # vim: ts=4:sw=4 I later changed the last 3 lines in the file to: # vi: ts=4:sw=4 # vim: ts=4:sw=4 # gvim: ts=4:sw=4 Anyway I try it, the user signon does read the modeline, but root will not. I don't remember this always being the case -- as I use modelines in config files, often, to reset tabstops... Is there something I'm missing somewhere? I have added explicit set modelines=5 to both my system /etc/vimrc and root's .vimrc, yet they are ignored. I've looked through the standard vim directories for anything that might be setting (or resetting) modelines, (ran vim -V10 to see all files it read in, and I think I checked all the file dirs it looked into or ran files from). Any ideas? Supposedly, modelines can allow execution of external scripts which can launch commands - possibly compromising security, but at least if the file is owned by root it shouldn't be ignoring modelines -- If arbitrary commands can be run from modelines, I can just as easily be running a syslog-command about each system-config file that is edited, into the syslog -- in which case, turning off modelines would simply turn off my default security logging (regardless of how great that would be for some OTHER system's security policy)... I'm wanting to extract hairs from painful parts of my body (or maybe painful parts of whoever caused this, if its not some "stupo" on my part :-))... Help? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
