enable modeline in vim

[Patrick]

Assuming you've installed vim from the ports tree, /usr/local/share/vim/vimrc is the shared vimrc file amongst all users. Have you tried setting it in there?  




On Monday, 16 July, 2012 at 09:37 , Victor Sudakov wrote:

> Виталий Туровец wrote:
> > >  
> > > Do you know how to enable modelines in vim running from root? Even if
> > > I put "set modeline" in /root/.vimrc, the output of ":set modeline?"
> > > still shows "nomodeline". At the same time, "set modeline" in ~/.vimrc
> > > works for all other accounts except root.
> > >  
> > > Someone has protected the root account so tightly that I cannot even
> > > shoot myself in the leg. Do you know how I could override this
> > > protection?
> > >  
> >  
> > In my vimrc i have next:
> > set modeline
> > set modelines=3
> >  
>  
>  
> As I said, in /root/.vimrc I have:
>  
> set modeline
> set modelines=5
>  
> > And it works, no matter from root or normal user. Hope this helps.
>  
> And it does not work for root. vim-7.3.556_1
>  
> Surely I am doing something stupid but I cannot figure out what.
>  
> --  
> Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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