> I've never seen a modeline in the wild that did anything other than Hence the securemodelines plugin https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1876 h

> I've never seen a modeline in the wild that did anything other than Hence the securemodelines plugin https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1876 https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1876 > if this is a class of bug that can be disabled via vim settings. set nomodeline That is, as parent mentioned, if it's not done already by your distro or OS.