Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline

[Alex Bennée]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:07:26AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
>> > is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.
>> >
>> > As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
>> > for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
>> > mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
>> > in, well, pretty much everything.
>> >
>> > Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
>> > in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
>> > that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.
>> >
>> > This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
>
> Given that we already have emacs mode-lines, I see no reason to
> not also have vim mode-lines, so regardless of the deeper discussion
> I think this is patch is fine to merge in the short term
>
>   Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

We could remove them all and defer to .editorconfig but I'm not going to
get in the way of making our Vim brethren's lives a little easier.

-- 
Alex Bennée