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

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.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David
> 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....

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