Re: an old "hack" of mine, shared for amusement

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:40:52PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 24.04.17 19:50, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> > What this does is left as an exercise for the reader.
>
> That is most interesting, as ":h modeline" describes that they comprise only
> "set" directives, not arbitrary commands. I.e.:
>
> {options} a list of option settings, separated with white space
> or ':', where each part between ':' is the argument
> for a ":set" command (can be empty)
>
> after the:
>
> {vi:|vim:|ex:} the string "vi:", "vim:" or "ex:"
>
> It doesn't even allow the '|'.
>
> How turning off modelines might help to execute commands in modelines is
> a guessing game, without documentation of supported behaviour.
>
> Admittedly, on the few occasions that an arbitrary command seemed to be
> needed, I've found another way to achieve the result.

Eli did mention that he had been running Vim version 4.2. Perhaps
modelines worked differently back then?

The oldest Vim source code I could find in a brief search is version
6.4. Does anybody know of a way to find a version that's even older
than that?

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Erik Falor
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