Hi, The following post visible on planet, prompted a discussion on a french irc channel. http://www.otsukare.info/2015/06/17/mozilla-central-sublimetext
What we currently have in the tree is essentially modelines for vim and emacs. But: - most vim installations have modelines disabled by default because of the security implications: https://lwn.net/Articles/20249/. - emacs has the same security implication, and AIUI, opening a file with a modeline makes emacs ask questions to the user. Or ignore them in batch mode. - they add 2 or 3 lines of boilerplate to every file in the tree. - they are not being added to every file in the tree. Once you realize all the above, you wonder what good those modelines are doing, and if they are worth keeping. OTOH, there is http://editorconfig.org/ which works per directory (recursively, so if everything is setup uniformly, you only need one file at the top source tree), is supported by default by a few editors, has plugins for many other editors (including sublime text, vim, and emacs), and doesn't have the security issues that make modelines ignored in most cases. So how about removing modelines and adding editorconfig files? Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
