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Modeline without plugin?

#1

I am running Sublime Text 4200 on Windows 10.

I opened up a file which was not named makefile or anything close. It did have an emacs-style modeline at the top of the file:

#-*-Makefile-*-

Sublime Text indeed interpreted the contents as a makefile.

However, I know I am not running any plugins to perform modeline detection.

Does Sublime Text natively support modelines?
If so, where can I find out all of the capability of this support?

(I am looking to see if I can embed in a modeline commands to use spaces instead of tabs, and set the tab width = 4)

Thanks!

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#2

No, it does not natively support modelines, at least in the manner that you want.

The reason that this works is that the Packages/Makefile/Makefile.sublime-syntax contains this:

first_line_match: |-
  (?xi:
    ^ \#! .* \bmake\b |                          # shebang
    ^ \s* \# .*? -\*- .*? \bmakefile\b .*? -\*-  # editorconfig
  )

Or if you will, it recognizes if there is what appears to be the part of a modeline that tells it that it’s a makefile. For other options, you would need a plugin to interpret the other portions.

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#3

Thanks!

Regarding other modeline parsing plugins, are you aware of one which is suitable for Sublime Text 4200? The ones I have seen reference Sublime Text 2 or 3, and I am not sure which would still be compatible.

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#4

Generally speaking anything for ST3 should work with ST4 just fine.The main thing that changed in regards to plugins is that a newer version of Python is included, but the older version is still there to execute plugins that don’t declare that they should be run with the new one.

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#5

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#6

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#7

Hello, I use Sublime Text for CP and i use “FastOlympicCoding” package in this packge the default button to run code in right side in pic is “ctrl + alt + b” i want to chang it to f1 for example.

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please help me in this problem i post it but no answer yet

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