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Bug 638790 - Document that emacs/vi modelines affect the override the indentation settings
Document that emacs/vi modelines affect the override the indentation settings
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: docs
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Maintainers of Gnome user documentation
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-06 01:46 UTC by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Modified: 2011-03-06 16:36 UTC
See Also:
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Description Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2011-01-06 01:46:13 UTC 
I've got a confused user at http://bugs.debian.org/607812 because the indentation wasn't working as he had configured it. Turns out it was because the file he was editing had a modeline:

/* -*- Mode: C; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 8; tab-width: 8 -*- */

that was overriding it. This should probably be documented in the user help.
Comment 1 Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho) 2011-03-06 16:36:43 UTC 
Fixed already with the port to mallard. Thanks for reporting it.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/help/C/gedit-plugins-modelines.page#n35