Vim's modelines are very useful for setting per-file settings in Vim. For example, the filetype can't always be reliably inferred from the filename, i.e. for templates with generic file extensions or script files that omit the file extension altogether.
This Vis plugin tries to read standard Vim modelines and set the following (Vis) settings:
autoindent, expandtab, numbers, tabwidth, syntax.
Vim (by default) looks for modelines in the first 5 and last 5 lines of the file. This will emulate this behaviour, but omit the setting to change this threshold, as no sane person would change it (it would break everybody else's Vim).
This parser assumes you will only use one modeline per file, to avoid having to resolve conflicts. It will use the first modeline it finds from the top.
Clone the repo to your vis plugins directory (~/.config/vis/plugins) and add
this to your visrc.lua:
require("plugins/vis-modelines")
The settings from the modeline will be applied after Vis is initialized, with the vis.events.START event callback.
The unit tests require the busted Lua unit testing framework.
- Write unit tests