Re: [PATCH v4] Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting

[Íñigo Huguet]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 8:19 AM Vincent MAILHOL
<mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon. 23 Oct. 2023 at 11:28, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > On Thu. 1 June 2023 at 16:53, Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> EditorConfig is a specification to define the most basic code formatting
> > >> stuff, and it's supported by many editors and IDEs, either directly or
> > >> via plugins, including VSCode/VSCodium, Vim, emacs and more.
> > >>
> > >> It allows to define formatting style related to indentation, charset,
> > >> end of lines and trailing whitespaces. It also allows to apply different
> > >> formats for different files based on wildcards, so for example it is
> > >> possible to apply different configs to *.{c,h}, *.py and *.rs.
> > >>
> > >> In linux project, defining a .editorconfig might help to those people
> > >> that work on different projects with different indentation styles, so
> > >> they cannot define a global style. Now they will directly see the
> > >> correct indentation on every fresh clone of the project.
> > >>
> > >> See https://editorconfig.org
> > >>
> > >> Co-developed-by: Danny Lin <danny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Danny Lin <danny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >
> > > Is there any news for this patch? I would really love this to become mainstream.
> >
> > I have concerns about this patch that I have expressed in the past.
> >
> > I'm not going to apply it... since it's a global change that affects all
> > kernel developers, I don't think I *should* apply it.  I would recommend
> > sending it directly to Linus; if you can get an ack from him, I'll apply
> > it then.
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for the comment, message taken.
>
> Hi Íñigo,
>
> The last version of the patch being from you, would you like to bring
> the topic to Linus yourself or shall I do it instead?

I'm not doing kernel development lately, so please go ahead pushing
this if you want.

Anyway, note that, as discussed in the thread, it is incorrect to say
that it will affect all kernel developers: most IDEs and editors only
have "opt-in" support for editorconfig, and the few that are not
"opt-in", are either "opt-out" or has a workaround (Kate).

>
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Vincent Mailhol
>


-- 
Íñigo Huguet