From: Felipe Contreras Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:03:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration Message-ID: <5fd8279ce0696_d7c482087@natae.notmuch> In-Reply-To: Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 02:56:22AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > - it doesn't suggest any actions that might be bad practices. I agree > that the instructions for auto-loading this .vimrc are more > complicated than necessary and might have security implications. > Carrying a file in contrib/vim that says "copy this to ~/.vim/foo" > or even "copy these lines to your ~/.vimrc" seems a lot safer. And > it makes it easier for people who prefer to adapt the config to > their own setup. > > So I'm not opposed to carrying some vim config, but I think it's best to > focus on simplicity and providing human-readable instructions, rather > than ad-hoc plugin infrastructure. Generally I would agree, but do you know what such instructions would look like? In particular what instructions would look like for a person that contributes to more than 3 projects with different C code-style. I can assure they are anything but human-readable. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras