On Thursday 2013-01-03 16:44 -0800, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Coding_Style > says that mozilla code files should have the following Emacs and Vim > mode lines: > > /* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; > c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ > /* vim: set ts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */ > > AIUI, |tab-width| in Emacs and |ts| in Vim are equivalent -- they > dictate how wide tabs that appear in files should appear. I can't see > a good reason why they aren't the same value in the above lines. > > In theory neither of these values needs setting is necessary because > our code files shouldn't have spaces, but in practice it's probably > sensible to have a setting. I suggest that we change the emacs > tab-width value to 2 in the style guide to match the vim value, though > I'm happy to hear arguments for other values.
Are there any common installations of vi/vim that actually honor modelines anymore? The ones on the Linux distros that I used stopped doing so as a security measure. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
