Re: My modelines don't work for me any more

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 <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:56 AM, glts <676c7473@gmail.com> 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?



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