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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>,
	Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:03:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fd8279ce0696_d7c482087@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X9gT57SAHzGm3ET2@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 02:56:22AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

>   - it doesn't suggest any actions that might be bad practices. I agree
>     that the instructions for auto-loading this .vimrc are more
>     complicated than necessary and might have security implications.
>     Carrying a file in contrib/vim that says "copy this to ~/.vim/foo"
>     or even "copy these lines to your ~/.vimrc" seems a lot safer. And
>     it makes it easier for people who prefer to adapt the config to
>     their own setup.
> 
> So I'm not opposed to carrying some vim config, but I think it's best to
> focus on simplicity and providing human-readable instructions, rather
> than ad-hoc plugin infrastructure.

Generally I would agree, but do you know what such instructions would look like?

In particular what instructions would look like for a person that
contributes to more than 3 projects with different C code-style.

I can assure they are anything but human-readable.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-15  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-09  6:55 [PATCH v2 0/2] vim: configuration and sharness syntax Felipe Contreras
2020-12-09  6:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration Felipe Contreras
2020-12-09  8:53   ` Christian Brabandt
2020-12-09 10:29     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-09 10:45       ` Christian Brabandt
2020-12-09 17:27   ` Jeff King
2020-12-10  1:55     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-10 15:27       ` Jeff King
2020-12-11  0:43         ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-10  3:50   ` brian m. carlson
2020-12-11  1:08     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-11  2:56       ` brian m. carlson
2020-12-11  4:37         ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-15  1:39         ` Jeff King
2020-12-15  3:03           ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2020-12-15  5:28             ` Jeff King
2020-12-15  6:56               ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-09  6:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] contrib: vim: add sharness syntax file Felipe Contreras
2020-12-09  7:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-12-09 10:39     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-09 17:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] vim: configuration and sharness syntax Jeff King
2020-12-10  3:25   ` Felipe Contreras

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