Russell Bateman wrote:
I found that I got an error with
<!-- vim: ts=2 sw=2: -->
Error detected while processing modelines:
line 789 (the last line of my file, but I tried it also on lines 1 and 2
(after the <html> tag) with the same result)
E518: Unknown option: -->
Hit ENTER or type command to continue
Instead, I had to put this:
<!--
vim: ts=2 sw=2:
-->
I wonder why.
[...]
As Christian Robinson mentioned earlier in this thread, there are two
kinds of Vim modelines. The first kind is like the one above; you can
have anything (plus a space) before "vim:" but you can't have anything
(other than spaces and tabs) after the last option setting, until the
end-of-line. Thus you could use
<!--
vim: ts=2 sw=2
-->
or
<!-- vim: ts=2 sw=2
-->
The second kind of modeline consists of a ":set" statement between
colons, preceded by anything plus whitespace plus "vim" and followed by
anything on the same line. Thus you could use
<!-- vim: set ts=2 sw=2 :-->
_with_ the word "set" and with a colon before the end-of-comment. (This
also implies that it would be a Bad_Thing™, at any future time, to patch
Vim so as to introduce an option named 'set'.)
BTW, IMHO that modeline has a more "logical" place in the <HEAD>
section, next to the <META> tags if any, but that's just my preference,
it's not cast in bronze for everybody everywhere.
See ":help modeline".
Best regards,
Tony.
