Comment 6 for bug 522708

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Numérigraphe (numerigraphe) wrote : Re: [Bug 522708] Re: Get rid of the vim directives at the end of each file

> How is defining its coding standards less important for the source than
> defining its encoding, especially when pretty much every single source
> only contains ascii characters in the first place?
Everyone needs the encoding - it's pep-0263.
Every developer needs the licence to know their rights.
But only VIM users use VIM modelines. And VIM users are gurus - they
don't need us to configure VIM in the first place.

I propose we remove the modelines, bundle a .vimrc at the root of the
source tree and tell VIM users to either add it to their own .vimrc, or
"set exrc", or use the -u option.
Lionel