Re: (forw) Re: [GoLugTech] Fw: [PLUG] vim and neovim bug

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:02:50 -0600
Akkana Peck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rick Moen writes:
> > Quoting Steve Litt ([email protected]):
> >   
> > > Yes. I use them quite a bit, especially to set folding=1. I spoze
> > > I can live without them.  
> > 
> > Or make a vim macro that can be run efficiently by the user to set
> > folding=1.  Modelines are hardly the only way to do frequently
> > needed operations in vi.  They're inherently a security target
> > because of their nature as an implicit autorun macro.  
> 
> I use them too, mostly for things like indentation levels and
> styles/modes. As far as I know they're the only way to set
> indentation levels and styles automatically for a file, so you
> don't have to type a bunch of customization every time you edit
> a given file. 

I have some files in a home-grown format called "Stylz" that are quite
robust *unless* they're carelessly wordwrapped, at which time getting
them back together would be a major undertaking. So those files use
modelines.

You just reminded me that I have an alternative. My Stylz files are
all .stylz or .stz, so I can make them a new Vim filetype. This was
done by VimOutliner, and it worked out extremely well.

So if the files you speak of have specific types of filetypes or other
things telling about their filenames, you can just go the ftdetect
ftplugin syntax route. I'll investigate that more.

SteveT

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