Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] vim: configuration and sharness syntax

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 9, 2020, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <X9EFVIlm8sYKtLwr@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20201209065537.48802-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 12:55:35AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> After investigating alternatives for exrc I found too many, doing a wide
> range of irrelevant stuff, many unmaintained, others requiring multiple
> dependencies, and some loaded the configuration too late.

I'm not opposed to this solution, but I probably wouldn't use it myself. I wonder if it would be sufficient to just say "here are some sensible vim options", coupled with human-readable instructions for how to integrate them into your .vimrc, along with some path-selection.

It's perhaps not quite as turnkey. On the other hand, it's easy for people who are even moderate vim users to understand what each line does. In the plugin solution, there are more lines dedicated to loading the config than there are actual config lines.

I dunno.

> And since I already created some files in 'contrib/vim' I decided to put
> the sharness syntax file there too.

This part I like very much. The actual policy logic is sufficiently complex that I hope people will be able to contribute back small fixes.

-Peff