[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Whitespace, copyright (was: [PATCH] Renewal notice hook, cleanup)

[Dan Scott]

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 13:32 -0400, Joe Atzberger wrote:

>         And that's the basic reason I advocated the vim comment /
>         emacs comment
>         (for David and for any other emacs-types that might have
>         joined or will
>         join the project): it reduces the chance of getting it wrong,
>         at least
>         for the text editors currently favoured by the contributors,
>         and it
>         would help newcomers from straying off the path. Yes, it's a
>         bit of
>         noise in each file, but it seems less draconian to me than
>         globally
>         setting the options for each developer's editor.
> 
> Actually, you wouldn't have to adopt the proposed "project" .vimrc
> file globally.  All you'd have to do is use the -u option:
> vi -u ~/ILS/.vimrc file_to_edit
> 
> 
> That could optionally be aliased in .bashrc as "egvi" (or whatever)
> like:
> alias egvi='vi -u ~/ILS/.vimrc'
> 
> 
> That should make it as easy to use as vi itself.

Oh, cool, I can totally get behind that approach! Adding it to the repo
(as you had earlier suggested) would make it easy to ensure that it's
always ready at hand. Thanks for the suggestion, Joe!

> And I think I like Jason's .vimrc better than mine!

Seconded