Support modelines
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Yes. I have many files with modelines like
# vim: sw=4:ts=8:noexpandtab
Describe the solution you'd like
Support modelines
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by determining how VSCodeVim reads file-local settings and which Vim modeline options must be supported, then define tests around the example modeline; done means supported modelines reliably apply their requested settings.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vim, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100