Bug 721124

Summary:	app-emacs/ebuild-mode should use tabs for indentation when editing metadata.xml
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	GNU Emacs project <gnu-emacs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	mgorny, vim
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591548
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2020-05-05 17:35:59 UTC

app-vim/gentoo-syntax uses tabs for indentation in metadata.xml.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-syntax.git/tree/ftplugin/gentoo-metadata.vim?h=gentoo-syntax-20200120#n16

It would be nice if emacs would do the same.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2020-05-06 08:09:50 UTC

I would argue the other way around, Emacs uses two spaces, to Vim should do the same. :-) Two spaces is also what was always used for all XML documentation files.

Anyway, every time this was mentioned in gentoo-dev in the past, there was no agreement. So the policy is to have no policy:
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata/index.html#syntax

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2020-05-06 12:01:23 UTC

I don’t understand how we have a policy for white space in ebuilds, but not metadata.xml.

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2020-05-06 13:02:53 UTC

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #2)
> I don’t understand how we have a policy for white space in ebuilds, but not
> metadata.xml.

"My 2 cents: So long as it is a well-formed XML document and doesn't
look horribly ugly in an editor, it really doesn't matter what we use,
and I don't think we need a policy for it."
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/7225591b720fee442f8d25c48489ff33

:)