Comment 3 for bug 522708

Hello,

BTW, I'm pretty sure showing to your audience you rely on VIM so much that
you even put such directives right inside the code will frighten lot's of
potential adopters who may think you belong to the "old" generation
of programmers. I know that for now Pydev and similar tools have their
limits with OpenERP because they can't resolve yet the meta-programming
tricks (at least they have a spell checker on by default...), I'm just
saying it looks dinosaur to some potential adopters.

Those past weeks I've trained US guys to OpenERP. The guys where talking
about investing millions and making thousands of developers switch from .Net
to OpenERP. But when they see the tooling with OpenERP is the Dia slideware
dead end and aside from that it's plain vi + be smart, they were just
too frightened to continue investing on it I think...

2010/2/16 Numérigraphe <email address hidden>

> Please note: I don't wan't to go on a flame war with VIM users (they're
> so used to it!), only pointing at bad separation of concerns.
>
> > What's the problem exactly?
> It's mostly useless and it takes time to maintain. Little time I grant you,
> but that's a pointless distraction.
>
> >Actually, these hints are very useful as they ensure a modicum of respect
> for the project's conventions(...)
> >I believe it's more about ensuring non-broken edits(...)
> These are none of the source's business. IMHO: know your tools, use your
> tools.
>
> If you want to help VIM users, can't a config file be set up in a .vimrc or
> something?
> Is VIM so important in our community?
> Lionel
>
> --
> Get rid of the vim directives at the end of each file
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522708
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> Bug description:
> Wishlist: Remove the VIM directives at the end of each file:
> # vim:expandtab:smartindent:tabstop=4:softtabstop=4:shiftwidth=4:
> To my knowledge, the only use for this is to render the file properly in
> the VIM editor.
> We shouldn't do that: it's not the source code's concern to configure the
> text editor.
> This is a practice of another age.
> If you can't get VIM to show the source properly, then you should use
> another editor.
> Lionel.
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