On Tuesday 19 December 2006 10:05, Allison Randal wrote: > The editor hints aren't actually very helpful, but they do add clutter > to every source file, and a maintenance burden. Both vim and emacs allow > top-level settings of these preferences, which is a more appropriate > place for them.
I agree; I use Vim and these hints have never prevented me from checking in literal tabs. I can see adding the coda to *generated* files, in an attempt to make them read-only, however. -- c