On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> What we currently have in the tree is essentially modelines for vim and > emacs. But: > - most vim installations have modelines disabled by default because of > the security implications: https://lwn.net/Articles/20249/. > - emacs has the same security implication, and AIUI, opening a file with > a modeline makes emacs ask questions to the user. Or ignore them in > batch mode. > As Boris said, for our particular emacs modeline there is no prompt. > - they add 2 or 3 lines of boilerplate to every file in the tree. > There's a ton of boilerplate at the top of every file, between the MPL and the vast sea of includes, which we're never going to be able to get rid of. > - they are not being added to every file in the tree. > Mode lines are easy to fix up (I wrote a script to do this) and only need to be done once per file. So how about removing modelines and adding editorconfig files? > I'm not particularly attached to mode lines (they are rather gross!), but replacing a once-per-file cost with a once-per-developer cost doesn't seem like a good trade off to me. > Mike > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
