[MPlayer-dev-eng] Indentation style (was: [PATCH] Fix useless dependencies in the stream lib)

[Robert Henney]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:54:45PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:15:52 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > That sums it up nicely for me.  Albeu, your goal is noble, but you
> > could instead try to convince people to go for a single consistent
> > style.
> 
> I'll try nothing. I just hoped we could get a somewhat nicer work
> environment.

The environment you seem to want for yourself may be possible without
needing "magic comments" within the source tree.  I believe, although
haven't investigated, that the same editor parameters can be set on a 
per-file basis from within the ~/.*rc files for most common editors
just as easily.  (vim may even have a way to be configured to 
auto-remember those per-file parameters to ~/.viminfo)

if someone wants to create/maintain such an editor rc file that
defines the desired editor parameters for each source file, that
seems more favorable to me over the idea of littering magic comments 
throughout the files in the source tree.  the rc file may then be
included into anyones editor rc files who desires it.  also I would
imagine that different magic comments would need to be added to every
file for every editor that comes along, which would mean patching
every source file individually. *shiver*  With an rc file, for any 
new editor just another single rc file would need to be created.