Re: vim modelines for guix repository

[ng0]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:

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> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 09:31:33PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>> Occasionally I use vim on systems to work on guix and other projects. As
>> far as I see it, there is nothing similar to .dir-locals.el (the per
>> directory local variables in emacs) for vim.
>> 
>> We should include modelines for every file to reflect what .dir-locals.el
>> does when you use emacs. It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I think
>> we should do this to be more open to people who do not use emacs.
>> Support for vim and emacs covers most editors which are there to
>> support.
>> 
>
> IMO there's too many files to go adding to the bottom of all the files.
> Something I've been thinking about is learning enough vimscript to write
> a guix.vim file that'll take care of formatting.

I agree, this could be more useful. The best approach would be to move
this to a separate project, so that other systems can create packages
for this to install it.

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