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On Oct 25, 2013 12:24 PM, "Dan Prince" <dprince at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> -1
>
> Slight preference for keeping them. I personally would go the other way
and just add them everywhere.

May I ask why? Do you use the modeline?

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joe Gordon" <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com>
> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:38:57 AM
> > Subject: [openstack-dev]  Remove vim modelines?
> >
> > Since the beginning of OpenStack we have had vim modelines all over the
> > codebase, but after seeing this patch
> > https://review.opeenstack.org/#/c/50891/<
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/50891/>I
> > took a further look into vim modelines and think we should remove
> > them.
> > Before going any further, I should point out these lines don't bother me
> > too much but I figured if we could get consensus, then we could shrink
our
> > codebase by a little bit.
>
> I'm not sure removing these counts as a meaningful codebase reduction.
These lines can mostly be ignored. Likewise, If the foundation required us
to double or triple our Apache license headers I would count that as a
codebase increase.
>
> >
> > Sidenote: This discussion is being moved to the mailing list because it
> > 'would
> > be better to have a mailing list thread about this rather than bits and
> > pieces of discussion in gerrit' as this change requires multiple
patches.
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/51295/.
> >
> >
> > Why remove them?
> >
> > * Modelines aren't supported by default in debian or ubuntu due to
security
> > reasons: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Vim
> > * Having modelines for vim means if someone wants we should support
> > modelines for emacs (
> >
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Specifying-File-Variables
)
> > etc. as well.  And having a bunch of headers for different editors in
each
> > file seems like extra overhead.
> > * There are other ways of making sure tabstop is set correctly for
python
> > files, see  https://wiki.python.org/moin/Vim.  I am a vIm user myself
and
> > have never used modelines.
> > * We have vim modelines in only 828 out of 1213 python files in nova
(68%),
> > so if anyone is using modelines today, then it only works 68% of the
time
> > in nova
> > * Why have the same config 828 times for one repo alone?  This violates
the
> > DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself).
> >
> >
> > Related Patches:
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/51295/
> >
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/nova+branch:master+topic:noboilerplate,n,z
> >
> > best,
> > Joe
> >
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