>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, Florian Schmaus wrote: >> 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?
> I do not think the comparison with ebuild-mode.el is sound: > ebuild-mode.el appears imperative, while .editorconfig is declarative. > Furthermore, and more importantly, ebulid-mode.el is (more or less) > editor-specific, while .editorconfig is editor agnostic. Sorry, a better example for Emacs would have been .dir-locals.el in the top-level directory. > That said, given how coupled ebuild-mode is with gentoo.git, I > personally would not mind if it where managed in the same repository. > [...] That's not going to happen, because it simply doesn't belong there (and neither does any other editor configuration IMHO). > In any case, I am a fan of .editorconfig. Hence +1 from me for adding > it to gentoo.git. But what does it do, effectively? Apart from the common-sense settings (utf-8, no trailing whitespace, etc.) which should be the default for every editor, the only setting specific to ebuilds is to enable tabs. Then again, it doesn't even say that they represent 4 spaces. Ulrich
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