Hi,

Am Freitag, dem 24.03.2023 um 09:17 +0100 schrieb Ulrich Mueller:
> 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,
*should*. And just because it's the default doesn't mean a user can't
configure such settings to something else locally for some reason and
then forget that we use UTF-8 and no trailing whitespaces in
gentoo.git.

> the only setting specific to ebuilds is to enable tabs.
Which I'd consider important, since I get the feeling that many people
seem to prefer spaces over tabs and might have their editor configured
that way.

> Then again, it doesn't even say that they represent 4 spaces.
Is that really important? I don't think we should force a tab width
for the user if we don't have a good reason to do so. The good thing
about tabs is that the user can set the tab width to their liking. If
we enforce a tab width, that would essentially undermine that one big
advantage over spaces.

Adrian

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