Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] editorconfig: set emacs mode

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 08/20/2018 01:00 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 August 2018 at 18:43, Marc-André Lureau
> <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Some time ago, I proposed to use an (eval) in .dir-locals.el to set
>> the mode for all json files and Makefile. Unfortunately, this isn't
>> safe, and emacs will prompt the user, which isn't very friendly.
>>
>> Fortunately, editorconfig provides a special config key which does
>> allow to set the emacs mode. Set the emacs mode for JSON, GLSL and
>> extra makefiles that are not yet covered. Drop modeline from JSON
>> files.
> 
> Does emacs apply info from the the editorconfig file by default, though?

Per https://editorconfig.org/, no, you have to first install an emacs 
plugin to get editorconfig files to have any effect.  So this patch is a 
non-starter unless distros start patching emacs to install that plugin 
by default.

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