# [PATCH 0/1] Add *.txt to .editorconfig

2 messages from 2020-01-05 to 2020-01-05. Participants: Hans Jerry Illikainen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52571

## Hans Jerry Illikainen, 2020-01-05 14:00

Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Add *.txt to .editorconfig
Message-ID: <20200105140055.19679-1-hji@dyntopia.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200105140055.19679-1-hji%40dyntopia.com

```
Minor patch that adds *.txt to .editorconfig to avoid annoyance when
editing git docs with an editor set to indent with space as a default.

Hans Jerry Illikainen (1):
  editorconfig: indent text files with tabs

 .editorconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--
2.20.1

```

## Hans Jerry Illikainen, 2020-01-05 14:00

Subject: [PATCH 1/1] editorconfig: indent text files with tabs
Message-ID: <20200105140055.19679-2-hji@dyntopia.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200105140055.19679-2-hji%40dyntopia.com
In-Reply-To: <20200105140055.19679-1-hji@dyntopia.com>

```
Previously, the .editorconfig did not specify an indentation style for
text files.  However, a quick look for indentation-like spacing suggest
that tabs are more common for documentation:

$ git grep -Pe '^ {4}' -- '*.txt' |wc -l
2683
$ git grep -Pe '^\t' -- '*.txt' |wc -l
14011

Note that there are a lot of files that indent list continuations (and
other things) with a single space -- if the first search was made
without the fixed quantifier the result would look very different.
However, the result does correspond with my anecdotal experience when
editing git documentation.

This commit adds *.txt to .editorconfig as an extension that should be
indented with tabs.

Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com>
---
 .editorconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index 42cdc4bbfb..f9d819623d 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ insert_final_newline = true
 
 # The settings for C (*.c and *.h) files are mirrored in .clang-format.  Keep
 # them in sync.
-[*.{c,h,sh,perl,pl,pm}]
+[*.{c,h,sh,perl,pl,pm,txt}]
 indent_style = tab
 tab_width = 8
 
-- 
2.20.1


```