On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-06-17 10:49 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote:
>
>> Speaking as an emacs user, I'd be OK with removing modelines, adding
>> editorconfig files, and adding .dir-locals.el files (modelines, but on a
>> directory-wide basis, including subdirectories).  Just removing modelines
>> and adding editorconfig files requires several steps on my part to get
>> back
>> to the functionality I already enjoy, which doesn't seem helpful.
>>
>
> I use vim, and the modelines are definitely useful to me.
>

I didn't mean to imply that they aren't useful to me!  They certainly are
(and it's annoying to encounter files where indentation settings don't get
setup correctly).


> I don't understand why you are suggesting to remove the modelines instead
> of fixing them, and potentially adding an editorconfig for people who use
> those, but I guess I can live with it if that happens.
>

Hey, Mike is the one who suggested removing them, I'm just trying to make
sure that a potential removal happens the way I would like it to. ;)

I don't mind removing the modelines so long as I don't have to configure
other things to get back to my present editing state.  If there aren't
equivalent mechanisms for setting modelines on a per-directory basis in
vim, I'd be OK with leaving the vim modelines in.

Also, if we *do* have per-directory settings, let's please have them at the
top of the tree and not permit per-module settings... (js/ excepted from
this, of course).

-Nathan
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