Subject: Re: bug#70105: 30.0.50; Emacs should support EditorConfig out of the box

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:25:57 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:44:00 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> https://editorconfig.org/ seems to be a popular standard to specify
> settings such as the size of an indentation step in an
> editor-agnostic way.
> 
> There's an `editorconfig` package for it up on NonGNU ELPA, but I think
> we should support it out of the box.

I agree, but what is the plan? import the package on NonGNU ELPA
(probably hard) or develop our own (in which case "patches welcome")?