On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> from perl5-porters:
>
> > > Are we going to assimilate what parrot is doing in all its C files -
> > > * vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4:
> > For most vi versions the portable vi modeline would be
> > * vi: set expandtab shiftwidth=4:
>
> Would changing the parrot boilerplate in this way be a good idea?
It wouldn't hurt, but I don't think it'd help either. As far as I know,
only vim actually reads that line in the source file and automatically
executes it. Traditional 'vi' doesn't try to execute that line in the
source file and so it doesn't matter whether it's portable or not.
Further, traditional 'vi' doesn't have an 'expandtab' option anyway.
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
