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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:34:21AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 July 2012 11:26, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From my .vimrc:
> >
> > au BufNewFile,BufRead */qemu/*.c,*/qemu/*.h,*/qemu/*.hx,*/qemu/*tool
> > setlocal ts=4 sw=4 et
> 
> Basically I think editor preferences are a local matter which
> can reasonably differ between different developers, so they
> shouldn't be in the git repo.

This is why I simply set the shiftwidth and set indenting by space.
Clearly no "can reasonably differ" applies here.

> (a) haven't you just demonstrated that even vim users have
> different preferred settings?

No, it's the same with the addition of tabstop=4, which *is*
a matter of taste (how many spaces you want shown if you edit
a file with tabs, like a makefile).

> (b) where do we stop? emacs? bbedit? there are a lot of editors
> out there...

If people ask for it we can consider. I doubt it will be a real problem.

> In any case, 3 settings clearly don't encompass the whole of
> QEMU's coding style.
> The relevant bit of my .emacs tweaks about
> 20 different settings...
> 
> -- PMM

If you don't use vim why do you even care about this patch?

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