Re: mingw-get: [RFC]: package group hierarchy

On 15/09/13 23:08, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> BTW, I notice that you, Earnie, have introduced some new package
>> group categories.  That's absolutely fine, but I also notice that
>> you've published a new GDB release, yet still no affiliation to the
>> existing debugger group.
> 
> Do we really need a stand alone group for the debugger?  I've been 
> meaning to ask that question.

I think so, yes.  That's a particular category of package which users
are likely to search for; having a group for it facilitates the search.

>> Finally, please consider enabling modelines in your vim
>> configuration, ...
> 
> Huh?  I thought all the files had a vim modelines in the catalogue 
> files.

They do, but vim's "set modeline" option needs to be on, when the files
are opened, for those modelines to have any effect.

> Is there something special I need to do?  Hmm... set modeline is 
> sensitive to where it is falls in the order of options in the .vimrc 
> file.

Vim's default is modeline on, except for root.  Annoyingly, Debian and
its derivatives turn it off for everyone; I don't know if that Debian
policy also propagated to MSYS.  To ensure it is on, you may need to add
a "set modeline" command in .vimrc, but ...

> Put it in the wrong place and another set command will destroy the
> set modeline option.

You need to be careful that you put it somewhere it won't get turned off
again, by something sourced afterwards.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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