bug#70105: 30.0.50; Emacs should support EditorConfig out of the box

[Björn Bidar]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
>> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:44:00 -0400
>> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> https://editorconfig.org/ seems to be a popular standard to specify
>> settings such as the size of an indentation step in an
>> editor-agnostic way.
>> 
>> There's an `editorconfig` package for it up on NonGNU ELPA, but I think
>> we should support it out of the box.
>
> I agree, but what is the plan? import the package on NonGNU ELPA
> (probably hard) or develop our own (in which case "patches welcome")?

Did anybody reach to the author of the editorconfig package?

The package works quite well providing a pure-lips based implementation
(probably useful for operating systems such as Microsoft Windows) or one
based on the editorconfig.org C based utilities.