What do you think of this idea instead: https://editorconfig.org/ It requires a plug-in for Emacs and VIM, but we could add that to the coding standards. It would avoid having to have a special config in each of our source files.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:00 AM Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:23:20AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > Thanks. Looks like the equivalent in Vim is Modelines: > > > > https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Modeline_magic > > > > But a lot of the major distributions turn off modelines by default. > > > > We should either have the Emacs and VIM Modelines in all the source > files, > > or none of them. > > Then I vote for all of them. If we take out those Emacs local vars > settings, > I would have to change my Emacs defaults every time I open it to edit > Xastir code. Either that, or every time I edit Xastir code I would have > to manually fix its incorrect (for project standards) indentation choices. > > I would still advocate leaving the variable settings in the file, to > override personal defaults and enforce project defaults. > > > Our source guidelines specify 4-spaces per tab, no embedded tab > characters. > > As I edit various files I sometimes get a 4-char space tab, sometimes a > > regular 8-char tab, and that is with Vim so I don't know why it is > changing > > from file to file 'cuz I don't see modelines in there for Vim. I might be > > missing them. > > There are no Vim modelines as far as I can tell. I couldn't guess why > Vim would edit different files with different defaults. Must be something > about specifics of your vim settings, though. Can't help you there, I'm > not a vim user. > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:52 AM Hal Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > That???s for Emacs. You can specify major mode and per-file variables. > > > > > > > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Choosing-Modes.html > > > > > > > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables > > > > > > Hal > > > N3YX > > > > > > > On Apr 30, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I haven't seen this before, but it does make my emacs behave > differently > > > > (the file had 2 space tabs, this made it do 4) and does nothing to > vi. > > > > > > > > RHEL 7 > > > > > > > > -j > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:06 AM Curt Mills <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> I see this header in _some_ of our source files: > > > >> > > > >> /* -*- c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- > > > >> > > > >> Is that for VI -and- Emacs, or just one of them? I use Vim. > > > >> > > > >> I've noticed while editing files in the last couple of weeks that my > > > tab is > > > >> not 4 chars sometimes. I have to manually space to indent properly. > > > >> > > > >> I thought at one point we needed two headers in our files, one for > Emacs > > > >> and one for VI. I didn't scan all the files but I saw a bunch of > files > > > with > > > >> no header and a bunch with the header above. > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Curt, WE7U http://we7u.wetnet.net > > > >> http://www.sarguydigital.com > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Xastir-dev mailing list > > > >> [email protected] > > > >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -Jason > > > > kg4wsv > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Xastir-dev mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Xastir-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > > > > > > > > > -- > > Curt, WE7U http://we7u.wetnet.net > http://www.sarguydigital.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY > Tijeras, NM > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] > [n-z][a-m] > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > -- Curt, WE7U http://we7u.wetnet.net http://www.sarguydigital.com _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
