Tip #331: modline magic...

  One  of the  things about  vim that  are both  quite simple  yet very
useful is that you can store  by-file settings... that is each file can
contain settings specific to it. this  thing is called a modline (:help
modline). though this  is limited to only the  'set' command arguments,
you can do allot of local to  file things like the indent type, folding
method and so on.                                                      

the syntax is as follows:

// vim:set ts=4 sw=4 nowrap:

or

/* vim:noai:ts=2:sw=4: */

  The modlines can be contained in comments so as to not interfere with
the file  syntax (shown here  for C/C++). these  lines are read  by vim
when it loads the  file, and they can either be in the  first or last 5
lines (by default).                                                    

refer to ':help modline'

//and a happy 20th birthday to the good old smiley!! :-)


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