Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> writes:

> The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
> is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.
>
> As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
> for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
> mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
> in, well, pretty much everything.
>
> Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
> in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
> that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.
>
> This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com>

Fixing the real mistake would be better, but until then, mitigating it
helps, like the existing Emacs modelines do.

Queued, thanks!


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