document updated 18 years ago, on Sep 30, 2007

Modelines in VIM allow individual files to tweak the vim settings. This can be very helpful at times.

to check whether modeline is enabled, start up Vim, and before changing any settings, run these:
- :set modeline? (should say "modeline" rather than "nomodeline")
- :set modelines? (should not be zero... preferably something like "5")