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Wasn't there an old standard for text format strings that could be placed at the end of source files that would be understood by Vim and Emacs? I never used it

Wasn't there an old standard for text format strings that could be placed at the end of source files that would be understood by Vim and Emacs? I never used it, but this reminds me of it.

dschep 11y ago
Vim has modeline[0]. Is that what you meant? [0] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27modeline%27 http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27modeli...
- telotortium 11y ago
  And the Emacs equivalent, file-local variables[0]. However, these are editor-specific, as far as I'm aware, although Python was able to extract the commonalities between them to support file encoding in PEP 0263[1]. [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Spe... [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/