VimModelines adds Vim modeline support into Sublime Text 3 for common settings. Modelines are Vim commands embedded into the comments in headers or footers. They are commonly used to set attributes specific to the file, like indentation or line endings to override the editor's default settings.
They are the Vi/Vim equivalent of Emacs modelines.
Their inclusion into files like Makefile, which must be tab delimited, or in
projects with many contributors is common-ish. They are also a common mechanism
to define the source encoding
for Python 2.
This plugin, by default, will search for them on file load & save and apply them to the Sublime Text view.
The default settings file for this plugin, for example, uses tabs and has
preference for a width of 2. This will override your default settings if
apply_on_load is set to true.
| Attribute | Description | Mapping |
|---|---|---|
| autoindent, ai | Automatic indentation | auto_indent = True |
| noautoindent, noai | Disable automatic indentation | auto_indent = False |
| fileformat, ff | Set line endings (dos, mac, unix) | set_line_endings() |
| fileencoding, fenc | Set file encoding (utf-8, ...) | set_encoding() |
| tabstop, ts | # of columns for each tab character | tab_size |
| shiftwidth, sw | # of columns for indent operation | ignored |
| softtab, st | # of columns for tab key (space & tab) | ignored |
| expandtab, et | Tabs → Spaces | translate_tabs_to_spaces = True |
| noexpandtab, noet | Respect tab chars | translate_tabs_to_spaces = False |
| number, nu | Show line numbers | line_numbers = True |
| nonumber, nonu | Hide line numbers | line_numbers = False |
| wrap | Enable word wrap | word_wrap = True |
| nowrap | Disable word wrap | word_wrap = False |
VimModelines will set the encoding as specified, but will not convert it. The following are the supported Sublime Text encodings and their mappings to Vim.
| Vim Encoding | Sublime Text Encoding |
|---|---|
| latin1 | Western (Windows 1252) |
| koi8-r | Cyrillic (KOI8-R) |
| koi8-u | Cyrillic (KOI8-U) |
| macroman | Western (Mac Roman) |
| iso-8859-1 | Western (ISO 8859-1) |
| iso-8859-2 | Central European (ISO 8859-2) |
| iso-8859-3 | Western (ISO 8859-3) |
| iso-8859-4 | Baltic (ISO 8859-4) |
| iso-8859-5 | Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5) |
| iso-8859-6 | Arabic (ISO 8859-6) |
| iso-8859-7 | Greek (ISO 8859-7) |
| iso-8859-8 | Hebrew (ISO 8859-8) |
| iso-8859-9 | Turkish (ISO 8859-9) |
| iso-8859-10 | Nordic (ISO 8859-10) |
| iso-8859-13 | Estonian (ISO 8859-13) |
| iso-8859-14 | Celtic (ISO 8859-14) |
| iso-8859-15 | Western (ISO 8859-15) |
| iso-8859-16 | Romanian (ISO 8859-16) |
| cp437 | DOS (CP 437) |
| cp866 | Cyrillic (Windows 866) |
| cp1250 | Central European (Windows 1250) |
| cp1251 | Cyrillic (Windows 1251) |
| cp1252 | Western (Windows 1252) |
| cp1253 | Greek (Windows 1253) |
| cp1254 | Turkish (Windows 1254) |
| cp1255 | Hebrew (Windows 1255) |
| cp1256 | Arabic (Windows 1256) |
| cp1257 | Baltic (Windows 1257) |
| cp1258 | Vietnamese (Windows 1258) |
| utf-8 | utf-8 |
| ucs-2le | utf-16 le |
| utf-16 | utf-16 be |
| utf-16le | utf-16 le |
- Install Package Control
- Open the Command Palette (⌘+⇧+P on macOS or ⌃+⇧+P on Linux & Windows)
- Search for and select "Package Control: Install Package"
- Search for and install "VimModelines"
cdinto your "Packages" directory:
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| Linux | ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/ |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/ |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3\Packages\ |
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/pestilence669/VimModelines.git