On Thursday 24 August 2006 12:04, Frans Englich wrote:
On Thursday 24 August 2006 15:44, George Staikos wrote:
It was brought to my attention that patches containing editor modelines are being rejected until the modelines are removed. Modelines are a great way to instruct the editor to use the proper coding convention on a given file, especially when one works on various projects each with different coding conventions. Is this really such a horrible thing?
Perhaps the right fix for this is not to accept random mode lines from random patches(so to speak), but to in the project guidelines decide for modelines for a 2-3 common editors, and then insert those consistently in all files, and require that new files have them as well.
(Of course, I am personally in favour of mode lines since they make the life easier for programmers and helps ensuring the style is respected.)
Well in this case I added vim modelines to each file in platform/qt. -- George Staikos KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/ Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/