On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:55 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> We have an .editorconfig file[0], which is a cross-editor file that can be > >> used to specify these settings. It is supported by many editors out of > > ... > > Also, we don't have to support configurations for every editor under > > the sun, that's a slippery slope fallacy. > > > > We can stop at 1 editor: the most widely used editor by developers by far [1]. > > > > Cheers. > > > > [1] https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages#query=vim > > It shows 71% (for vim-runtime), that is a lot higher than ~20% for > emacs. > > Amusingly, https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages#query=nano tells > us that nano clicks at 80%, which makes it the editor with the > largest number with your yardstick ;-) [*2*]. Right. But I doubt there's many git developers using nano. Anyway, that's not my yardstick, I just recall I've seen multiple surveys of the editors that developers use, and vim always comes at the top, by far. I just quickly searched for some evidence to sustain my notion. > In any case, I think it is a worthy goal to ship a sample set of > "vimrc" entries that people can readily accept for their use. It > also is a reasonable "feature request" to consider doing something > similar to "editorconfig" to give other editors similar convenience. Indeed. Editors are kind of a touchy subject, but I don't think anybody can deny that vim and emacs are the two most popular. My only point is that we don't have to support "every editor under the sun". Cheers. > [Footnote] > > *2* In other words, I doubt these graphs are depicting "how widely > is an editor used by developers". It is just showing how often it > is installed, and I know the primary workstation I use daily has vim > and nano installed without me choosing to have them, as opposed to > emacs I had to manually install, and I only use vim once every month > and nano once every quarter. Yes, but in Arch Linux at least no editor is installed by default. -- Felipe Contreras
