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

Ahhh. Soooo. Enlightenment happens. On reflection, I see the risk.
I want to think about whether enabling modelines is worth the risk.
For now, I may make a .vimrc that sets my favorite defaults without
enabling anything risky.

Thanks.

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:19 PM, glts <676c7473@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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