From: Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at>
To: 70105@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70105: 30.0.50; Emacs should support EditorConfig out of the box
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:48:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14j9p8ou8.fsf@constantly.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmsqey0rj.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>
Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>> I'm still working on the actual metadata of that branch, as well as
>> etc/NEWS and doc, but in the mean time maybe you could look at the code to
>> see if you have any objections there.
>
> OK, I have a first cut at the doc done.
> So, here's what I'm proposing, presented as a single diff.
> Some commit messages still need to be improved (and I just noticed that
> the files' copyright lines also need to be fixed), but other than that,
> I think it's about ready.
>
> Comments? Objections?
>
>
> Stefan
>
> diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
> index 6bf4cbe00df..5287a90bb71 100644
> --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi
> +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
> @@ -1550,6 +1550,41 @@ Directory Variables
> do not visit a file directly but perform work within a directory, such
> as Dired buffers (@pxref{Dired}).
>
> +@node EditorConfig support
> +@subsubsection Per-Directory Variables via EditorConfig
> +@cindex EditorConfig support
> +
> +The EditorConfig standard is an alternative to the @code{.dir-locals.el}
> +files, which can control only a very small number of variables, but
> +has the advantage of being editor-neutral. Those settings are stored in
> +files named @code{.editorconfig}.
> +
> +If you want Emacs to obey those settings, you need to enable
> +the @code{editorconfig-mode} minor mode. This is usually all that is
> +needed: when the mode is activated, Emacs will look for @code{.editorconfig}
> +files whenever a file is visited, just as it does for @code{.dir-locals.el}.
> +
> +When both @code{.editorconfig} and @code{.dir-locals.el} files are
> +encountered, the corresponding settings are combined, and in case there
> +is overlap, the settings coming from the nearest file take precedence.
What happens with both .dir-locals.el and .editorconfig present in the
current directory? What would be the "nearest file" in that case? (I'd
expect .dir-locals.el to override .editorconfig in that case, but there
are of course other possibilities.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-19 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-31 13:44 bug#70105: 30.0.50; Emacs should support EditorConfig out of the box Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-31 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-31 20:40 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-31 22:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-06 23:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-09 4:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-18 6:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-18 6:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-18 13:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-18 16:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-18 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-18 19:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-18 20:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-18 9:10 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <87v826hb13.fsf@>
2024-06-18 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-18 19:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-18 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-18 23:08 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 5:48 ` Rudolf Schlatte [this message]
2024-06-19 6:01 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-19 8:18 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 16:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-19 17:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 19:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-19 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 20:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-21 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 15:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-19 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-20 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-09 11:49 ` Stefan Kangas
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