modelines have repeatedly being a root cause of security flaws inside vim. That's why they are *now* being disabled by default in debian.
imho: If you want them, i suggest to activate them in ~/.vimrc ...and the doc should be updated accordingly. -- vim manual says 'modeline' is on by default, but in Ubuntu it's off https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130531 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs