[webkit-dev] Modelines

Leo Savernik l.savernik at aon.at
Thu Aug 24 11:55:34 PDT 2006


Am Donnerstag, 24. August 2006 19:26 schrieb Maciej Stachowiak:
> On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:44 AM, George Staikos wrote:
> > It was brought to my attention that patches containing editor
> > modelines are
> > being rejected until the modelines are removed.  Modelines are a
> > great way to
> > instruct the editor to use the proper coding convention on a given
> > file,
> > especially when one works on various projects each with different
> > coding
> > conventions.  Is this really such a horrible thing?
>
> I put this at the top of all C++ files and headers:
>
> // -*- mode: c++; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
>
> I think if we want multiple modelines we should agree on which ones
> and use them consistently.
>

How about committing proper .kateconfig, .emacs-dirvars, .viwhatever 
configuration files at the project root instead?

mfg
	Leo



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