Bug 138195 - Document the disabling of modelines in the Vim help files
Summary: Document the disabling of modelines in the Vim help files
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: ConsoleApps (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Mads Martin Joergensen
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Reported: 2005-12-13 01:03 UTC by Omari Norman
Modified: 2005-12-14 12:15 UTC (History)
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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.