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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:44:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] editorconfig: Add automatic editor configuration file
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 8:02 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This is sensible for tools that interface to users.
> Users have no interest in which language is used
> internally.

Agreed in the general case (e.g. everyday tools). In the kernel's
case, however, I think it is not as important.

And I guess most of us tab-autocomplete anyway... :-)

> Rather, I very much like this patch, but I just
> wondered how this case could be handled.

Symlinks might be a good way when there is an installer of some kind.
But in the kernel's case, I would prefer to avoid having symlinks for
every script (in particular if they are in the same folder).

Cheers,
Miguel