On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 13:30, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
This line is controversial for the following simple reasons : [...]
You're right it's controversial. If I understood correctly the large majority of devs/TUs is made by vim users, so this could be a reason to leave it in. I'll be happy to ditch it in any case, though, if some vim guru explained (and meybe wikified) how to get the same result with your .vimrc or whatever way it's done. After all, those who don't like it will continue to remove it, and those who like it will continue to use it in their rc file.
Corrado
The point is that it's NOT in vimrc. vimrc might have something like ts=8 sw=8, and another might like 4, or two, or 6. This way the mode is set for that file while you edit it, without having to manually change anything.