Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] use spaces instead of tabs in vim

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 18:58 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Thanos Makatos writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] use spaces instead of tabs in 
> > vim"):
> > > Tell vim to use spaces instead of tabs for all files residing under
> > > xen-unstable.hg. Must open files from the top-level directory, otherwise 
> > > it
> > > doesn't work.
> > 
> > This is fine by me and looks plausible but I'd like to see a second
> > opinion from someone who uses vim.
> > 
> 
> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Modeline_magic suggests you can do it on a
per-file basis. Given the number of different coding styles throughout
the tree wouldn't that be a better option? This set of options is wrong
e.g. for tools/libxl and anything imported from Linux.

It's be a bigger initial patch but once it is done it's done.

People typically copy the magic block from an existing file so as long
as you put the vim one next to the emacs one it should get propagated as
necessary to new files.

Ian.


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