Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz
---
.editorconfig | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
HACKING | 9 ++-------
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 .editorconfig
diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..273eef48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# EditorConfig configuration for pacman
+# http://EditorConfig.org
+
+# Top-most EditorConfig file
+root = true
+
+# Unix-style newlines without trailing whitespaces, but with a newline
+# ending every file, utf-8 charset, set indent to tabs
+[*]
+end_of_line = lf
+insert_final_newline = true
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
+charset = utf-8
+indent_style = tab
+
+[NEWS,HACKING]
+indent_style = space
+
+[*.py]
+indent_style = space
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index e32938cf..009a4682 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -11,13 +11,8 @@ Coding Style
1. All code should be indented with tabs. (Ignore the use of only spaces in
this file.) A tab size of two spaces is used when calculating line widths,
- which should be a maximum of 80 characters. By default, source files
- contain the following Vim modeline:
-+
-[source,C]
--------------------------------------------
-/* vim: set noet: */
--------------------------------------------
+ which should be a maximum of 80 characters. An EditorConfig file is used
+ to set this project-wide default.
2. When opening new blocks such as 'while', 'if', or 'for', leave the opening
brace on the same line as the beginning of the codeblock. The closing brace
--
2.17.0