You could set up an autocommand that reads the first few lines of the file
and sets any option you like from there. Maybe you'd need to put it on a
one second timer or something.

The security problem comes because you might have makeprg set to something
for your project and then you open a new file that sets it to, say, 'rm -rf
/' or some such. You try to build your project innocently and end up
deleting your system.
Salman

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 20:31 dvalin via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com>
wrote:

> When Vimming a number of wildly disparate textfiles, each with a single
> custom processing requirement, it would be absolutely ideal to set makeprg
> (or equivalent) in a modeline. But for makeprg that is verboten: "This
> option cannot be set from a |modeline| or in the |sandbox|, for security
> reasons."
>
> Mind you, here there is no such security concern - whether any command is
> run by ":!" or makeprg makes no real difference, so I'm not entirely sure
> why one would impose the clumsiness of having to insert ":!groff -k -Tpdf
> -ms -m hdtbl -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 % > /tmp/vde.pdf" or whatever another file
> needs?
>
> So is there a file-local way to just alias e.g. ^m to a shell command,
> **in the modeline**? That would be much faster to invoke, and not muck with
> makeprg.
>
> Vim can do everything; it's finding the clue in the :help that is the
> challenge, even going in with a packed lunch.
>
> Erik
>
>
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