Re: vim and syntax configuration line in file

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:53:08PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> since while I have noticed that my vim editors
> no more recognize my vim configuration line such
> 
> %% vim:syntax=tex
> ## vim:syntax=maple
> 
> in my file.
> 
> I can not figure out what is wrong:
> any idea.

You probably have the modelines option set to 0, which appears to be the
default in /etc/vim/vimrc in some recent Debian vim packages. You can
override that in ~/.vimrc if you want.

I'm not sure I agree with the default; if hazardous modelines are
possible then that in itself is a bug which needs to be fixed by more
than just changing the default, but you may want to read about it for
yourself.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]