I’ve been cleaning up my Vim config this week, and I noticed some strange errors while doing an interactive rebase in my dotfiles repository.
Error detected while processing modelines: line 1: E518: Unknown option:Because of the way I format commit messages for my dotfiles, the first line of
the file presented during an interactive rebase was being interpreted as a
modeline. I was hoping there was a
command line option or something that I could use to disable modelines, but as
far as I can tell, you have to do it in your .vimrc.
This isn’t likely to be a problem for most people, as I don’t imagine there are
many that have vim: at the beginning of their commit messages. However if you
run into this problem, you can solve it by adding the following to an
appropriate place in your .vimrc