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Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:14:29 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> writes:

> The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
> is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.
>
> As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
> for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
> mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
> in, well, pretty much everything.
>
> Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
> in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
> that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.
>
> This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>

Fixing the real mistake would be better, but until then, mitigating it
helps, like the existing Emacs modelines do.

Queued, thanks!




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