[publican-list] Comments in XML files, good, bad, or ugly?

[Lana Brindley]

Jeff Fearn wrote:
> Lana Brindley wrote:
>> Jared Smith wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 15:21 +1100, Lana Brindley wrote:
>>>> What else are comments good for? Is there anything that can be 
>>>> achieved with comments that _can't_ be achieved through the use of 
>>>> another tag (like <remark>)?
>>>
>>> I, for one, like to put a comment at the very bottom of my XML files
>>> that looks like:
>>>
>>> !-- vim: softtabstop=2:shiftwidth=2:expandtab:textwidth=72 -->
>>>
>>> I realize it's a pretty trivial example, but it's just a single example
>>> of one of the many places a <remark> just doesn't seem to fit.
>>>
>>> -Jared
>>
>> Jared,
>>
>> Skuse my ignorance ... but what does that line actually do?
> 
> It embeds vim configuration settings in the file, forcing other vim 
> users to delete it and reload the file with the proper configuration 
> settings.
> 
> Cheers, Jeff.
> 

Who reads documentation in vim?

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