Ahhh. Soooo. Enlightenment happens. On reflection, I see the risk. I want to think about whether enabling modelines is worth the risk. For now, I may make a .vimrc that sets my favorite defaults without enabling anything risky.
Thanks. On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:19 PM, glts <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:57:53 PM UTC+1, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> 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. >> > 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.... > > Your last message had the crucial bit of information. > Quoting ":h 'modeline'": > >> 'modeline' 'ml' boolean (Vim default: on (off for root), >> Vi default: off) > > Modelines are off when you're root. Time to create a vimrc for root? > > > > -- > David > > -- > -- > 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. -- 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.
