On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:22:45PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
>
> > Has anyone considered adding vi/vim options to the files themselves?
> > Granted, not a trivial task, but it would ensure anyone using vim would
> > have the correct settings. I don't know if emacs has the same ability
> > (I've seen the "Hey emacs, this is a C file" stuff...)
>
> Certainly it does; it even knows that certain variables are safe to allow
> files to set without warning the user and it has the indention marked as such.
>
> I think this would be what you would want.
>
> /*
> * Local variables:
> * eval: (c-set-style "bsd")
> * tab-width: 4
> * c-basic-offset: 4
> * End:
> */
>
> But it would have to be on the end of every single file which would be pretty
> heavyweight.
Yeah, which is the real question... do people think it's worth it enough
to move towards doing that? Of course the nice thing is that *anyone*
(even me :) ) could produce a patch to do that.
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