[Xastir-dev] Editor header in source files

[Curt Mills]

There's also project-specific VIM files:
https://andrew.stwrt.ca/posts/project-specific-vimrc/

Which would require tweaks to the users ~/.vimrc file to enable.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:14 AM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:23:20AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
>> collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> 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 <hal at seanet.com> 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 <kg4wsv at gmail.com> 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 <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
>> > > 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
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>> > > >
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