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Re: question about vim



On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:46:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > Hi 
> >  
> >  
> > I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file 
> > type setting of vim, sometimes it is good an other times it is a pain in the but. 
> >  
> > I have done some reading about setting vim options in files. 
> >  
> > for example I am editing a makefile and I have placed this line at the bottom 
> >  
> > # vim:ft='' 
> >  
> > when I load up this file in vim and then execute set ft, it returns makefile, 
> > which is not what I want, have I typed it wrong or is there some option that I 
> > need to set ? 

I'm just wondering, why don't you want the filetype? One of the reasons 
I started using vim was it's syntax highlighting.

> another look and I found what I was looking for, seems like modeline is turned 
> off in debian, so I have added to my ~/.vimrc a set modeline

For security reasons probably. Be careful what files you are loading.

Regards,
Andrei
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(Albert Einstein)

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