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30.0.50; Emacs should support EditorConfig out of the box

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Message #11 received at 70105 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70105 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#70105: 30.0.50; Emacs should support EditorConfig out of
 the box
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:40:29 +0300

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
>> 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" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> 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")?

Did anybody reach to the author of the editorconfig package?

The package works quite well providing a pure-lips based implementation
(probably useful for operating systems such as Microsoft Windows) or one
based on the editorconfig.org C based utilities.

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