Bug 138195

Summary: Document the disabling of modelines in the Vim help files
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Omari Norman <omari>
Component: ConsoleAppsAssignee: Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: All   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Description Omari Norman 2005-12-13 01:03:18 UTC 
I spent some time trying to get modelines to work in Vim. According to the Vim documentation, by default modelines are on, so I was puzzled as to why they did not work. Finally I realized they had been disabled in /etc/vimrc for security reasons. It would be nice if this were noted in the Vim help files (at *'modeline'* and at *modeline*) so people would know the default in Vim has been changed by SUSE.
Comment 1 Mads Martin Joergensen 2005-12-14 12:15:32 UTC 
The first place to look for SUSE configuration changes (modelines is not the only one, there's many others) is /etc/vimrc.

That's the only place it goes, otherwise we would have to change the help files for every option we change, and that's simply too much. Sorry.