On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 02:48:57PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
> 
> > Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >> Similar to f7160f3218 "schemas: Add vim modeline"
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  qapi/audio.json  | 1 +
> >>  qapi/compat.json | 1 +
> >>  qapi/replay.json | 1 +
> >>  qapi/trace.json  | 1 +
> >>  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/qapi/audio.json b/qapi/audio.json
> >> index 9cba0df8a4..fe3b506ec3 100644
> >> --- a/qapi/audio.json
> >> +++ b/qapi/audio.json
> >> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> >>  # -*- mode: python -*-
> >> +# vim: filetype=python
> >
> > I realise we have Emacs mode annotations here as well and I'm not going
> > to start a holy war but I thought we used .editorconfig to avoid messing
> > directly with the individual files. So something like:
> >
> >   [*.json]
> >   indent_style = space
> >   emacs_mode = python
> >   vim_filetype = python
> >
> > should also do the job.
> 
> Most schema files have lines for both Emacs and vim.  Some have only the
> former, and this patch adds the latter to them.  Seems fair to me.
> 
> Perhaps we could get rid of them all instead.  As far as I can tell,
> .editorconfig doesn't work for stock Emacs out of the box, though.

I think the same is true for vim. You need to enable a plugin for
it. Similar to other IDEs.

If we have a formal way to suggest that developers install
editorconfig plugin for their IDE it would be better than
maintaining such annotations.

Cheers,
Victor