Per-directory settings

[wwp]

Hello Thorsten,


On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:52:16 +0200 Thorsten Haude <yoo at vranx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> * wwp wrote (2006-08-25 16:44):
> >I wonder if nedit does or would allow to use different editor settings
> >following the directory it loads files from. IIRC vim has such behaviour,
> >it allows to set .vimrc files in directories so that different edition
> >settings are used. I use NEdit for years, and don't want to switch to vim,
> >at all :-).
> 
> I have a rough patch here that could do what you want. I have yet to
> find a way to smooth it a bit, so it will take yet a little while to
> publish it. (And I have a new pesky bug in my Patch collection to take
> some time away.)

Oh? Sounds great, feel free to ask for testers, I'm volunteer!


> >In a  general manner, I'm looking for a convenient way to use different
> >settings (mainly tab or wrap settings) following the source files I'm
> >editing. At work we now use 4-space, but for some OS projects it's
> >tab-4-space, here it's tab-8-space.. for some files which are not source
> >code, I'd like to turn on autowrap, etc.
> 
> I'm working on reading Vim's modelines. That way you wouldn't need a
> new set of hieroglyphs in the files for NEdit. This and the patch
> above are related, so you have to wait a little here, too.

*I* am neutral about vim stuff since I don't use it. It's just that a friend
of mine told me that vim allows per-directory .vimrc, that sounded exactly
what I need. Anyway there will be people who'd probably like if NEdit eats
vim stuff.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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