Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] >>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, Sam James wrote: > >>> I'm slightly confused. What repository is this intended for? > >> gentoo.git. > > Then it looks wrong, conceptually. Or would it be o.k. if I committed > ebuild-mode.el to the top-level directory of the Gentoo repository? >
The idea is to make other editors less-hostile when they don't have a dedicated mode (like I said in the commit message). The specific reason for doing this is because it's editor agnostic. So it's not the same thing. > Seriously, these are generic settings which rather belong in the > user's configuration. For example, who would use anything else than > LF on Unix, or anything other than UTF-8 in 2023? I mean, we can drop those bits and just put the tabs if you really want. The indentation is really the most notable part and an annoyance if you open an arbitrary editor to quickly change something. > > Ulrich > > [[End of PGP Signed Part]]
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