Hi, I stumbled upon a grammar mistake in the user manual, in section "21.6 Modelines" (:help 21.6). Here is a correction.
Cheers /Dominique $ svn diff runtime/doc/usr_21.txt Index: runtime/doc/usr_21.txt =================================================================== --- runtime/doc/usr_21.txt (revision 185) +++ runtime/doc/usr_21.txt (working copy) @@ -432,9 +432,9 @@ The "any-text" indicates that you can put any text before and after the part that Vim will use. This allows making it look like a comment, like what was done above with /* and */. - The " vim:" part is what makes Vim recognize this line. The must be white -space before "vim", or "vim" must be at the start of the line. Thus using -something like "gvim:" will not work. + The " vim:" part is what makes Vim recognize this line. There must be a +white space before "vim", or "vim" must be at the start of the line. Thus +using something like "gvim:" will not work. The part between the colons is a ":set" command. It works the same way as typing the ":set" command, except that you need to insert a backslash before a colon (otherwise it would be seen as the end of the modeline).