Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline

[Markus Armbruster]

Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> writes:

> The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
> is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.
>
> As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
> for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
> mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
> in, well, pretty much everything.
>
> Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
> in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
> that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.
>
> This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>

Naming QAPI schema files .json even though their contents isn't was a
mistake.  Correcting it would be a pain.  If we correct it, then the
sooner the better.

Renaming them to .py gives decent editor support out of the box.  Their
contents isn't quite Python, though: true vs. True, false vs. False.  Do
we care?  Only a few dozen occurences; they could be adjusted.

Renaming them to .qapi would perhaps be less confusing, for the price of
"out of the box".

Thoughts?