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bug#32457: 26.1.50; automatically set indent-tabs-mode from .gitattribut
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Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#32457: 26.1.50; automatically set indent-tabs-mode from .gitattributes |
Date: |
Wed, 18 May 2022 15:31:51 +0200 |
>>>>> On Wed, 18 May 2022 14:18:09 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>>>>> said:
Lars> Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:
>> git can be configured to complain about indenting with tabs
>> by using "whitespace=tab-in-indent" in .gitattributes.
>>
>> It would be nice if Emacs automatically detected this and set
>> indent-tabs-mode to nil.
>>
>> git attributes can be queried using "git check-attr", for instance:
>>
>> $ git check-attr whitespace --
src/librustc_codegen_llvm/debuginfo/metadata.rs
>> src/librustc_codegen_llvm/debuginfo/metadata.rs: whitespace:
>> tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
Lars> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
Lars> at the time.)
Lars> I don't think this would be an appropriate feature for Emacs core --
it
Lars> would be too surprising if Emacs was setting `indent-tabs-mode' based
on
Lars> external factors like this (and I'm sure there's a lot of other hints
it
Lars> could be taking from other VCs).
Lars> It does sound like it could be a useful ELPA package, though, but I'm
Lars> closing this wishlist item in the Emacs bug tracker.
.dir-locals.el supports 'eval', so anyone who wants this could put it there.
Robert
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