Re: Why modline is not available?

On 2015-04-18, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, I have the following modline in a .sh file. It works in machine A,
> but on machine B. (All .vimrc, .vim/ are the same on both machines.)
>
> # vim: set noexpandtab tabstop=2:
>
> Vim on machine B is of the following version. Does anybody know why
> modline is not working on machine B?

It appears that 'modeline' is set "on" on machine A but "off" on
machine B. It defaults to "on" for normal users and "off" for root.
My guess is that it is being set to 'nomodeline' in your
distribution's system vimrc.

> ~$ vim --version
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 2 2014 19:39:47)
> Included patches: 1-52
> Modified by pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

You appear to be running a Debian-based distribution. Debian's vim
package includes /usr/share/vim/vimrc, which sources
$VIMRUNTIME/debian.vim, which contains

set nomodeline

The solution is to put

set modeline

somewhere in your ~/.vimrc.

Note that Fedora, for example, does not set nomodeline.

Regards,
Gary

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