Messages in this thread | | | From | Vincent MAILHOL <> | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:18:41 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting |
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On Mon. 23 Oct. 2023 at 11:28, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote: > Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr> writes: > > > On Thu. 1 June 2023 at 16:53, Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com> 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@kdrag0n.dev> > >> Signed-off-by: Danny Lin <danny@kdrag0n.dev> > >> Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com> > >> --- > > > > 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?
Yours sincerely, Vincent Mailhol
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