Be aware that you cannot use the verbose form of Emacs settings at the beginning of a file, unless the file is shorter than 3000 bytes. See Perl::Critic::Policy::Editor::RequireEmacsFileVariables policy for more details:
So this means we need to put the emacs and vim settings at the end of the file. Vim sets a similar restriction in that its settings should be in the first or last 5 lines. The problem that I'm trying to solve here is: how do we add the settings information to perl language files such that it doesn't cause problems with __END__ and __DATA__ blocks, is testable by perlcritic, emacs *and* vim pick up their settings values, and it doesn't interfere with the visual structure of the file. I've hit a bit of a brick wall in trying to satisfy all these conditions; any ideas as to how we can achieve this? Many thanks in advance, Paul
