Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: add .exrc

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:11:21PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 19 July 2012 15:29, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I've been using this to get correct indenting with vim
>> > in qemu for a while, but it's a bit easier if we
>> > put the settings in the central place.
>> > Note that
>> > 1. you still need to enable 'exrc' and 'secure'
>> >    options in your vimrc for these settings to take effect.
>> > 2. you can create a .vimrc file if 'exrc' is on but there's
>> >    need to bypass this configuration.
>>
>> I think editor configs could reasonably go on the wiki somewhere
>> but I'm not sure they belong in our git repo...
>>
>> -- PMM
>
> kvm people need to work on both qemu and kernel which
> have different styles, so switching styles manually gets old quickly.
> The benefit is more people will send patches in the correct style.
> What's the harm?

>From my .vimrc:

au BufNewFile,BufRead */qemu/*.c,*/qemu/*.h,*/qemu/*.hx,*/qemu/*tool
setlocal ts=4 sw=4 et

I agree that it's useful to have this, just like .gitignore or
.gdbinit.  It makes developer's lives easier and encourages consistent
coding style.

Stefan