Re: what does "vim:et:ts..." mean in vi?

On 01/05/13 19:33, skyworld wrote:
> I'm reading someone's code and at the end of the file I found some
> code like this:

> # vim:et:sw=4:ts=4:ft=python:
>
>
> I'm interested those "vim:et:sw...." because I'm a user of vi, but I
> don't know what these "comments" means and I guess they have some
> special usage.

You want to read at

:help modeline
:help 'modelines'

It allows you to set various options for the file, in case the
file/project happens to override your default settings. In your
example, it sets 'expandtab', 'shiftwidth', 'tabstop', and
'filetype' according to PEP8 standards.

-tim




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