On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:56 AM, glts <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Saturday, February 1, 2014 6:11:27 PM UTC+1, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> I used to be able to set a bunch of options with modelines. Something >>> has changed. >>> >>> For example, I put this line at the bottom of a bash script: >>> # vim: et sr ai nocp:sts=2 sw=2 ts=8 >>> but I find my shiftwidth is still 8. Changing spaces to colons does not >>> help. >>> >>> The format I'm using agrees with the :help modeline format. But no joy. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >> >> What Vim version are you using? >> >> Your modeline works just fine for me on both versions 7.3 and 7.4. >> >> >> >> -- >> David > It says it's 7.4, and it came with my Xubuntu 13.10 AMD system >
Additional: it only fails when I'm root. root has no .vimrc I don't know why any of this would matter.... -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" 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/groups/opt_out.
