tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs — pull request #78 by zooko (2013-12-18 00:01:25+00:00)
Title: comments which set emacs variables

This makes it so that emacs knows the intended character encoding, BOM,
end-of-line markers, standard line-width, and tabs-vs-spaces policy for these
files.

This is also a form of documentation. It means that you should put only
utf-8-encoded things into text files, only utf-8-encoded things into source
code files (and actually you should write only put ASCII-encoded things except
possibly in comments or docstrings!), and that you should line-wrap everything
at 77 columns wide.

It also specifies that text files should start with a "utf-8 BOM". (Brian
questions the point of this, and my answer is that it adds information and
doesn't hurt. Whether that information will ever be useful is an open
question.)

It also specifies that text files should have unix-style end-of-line markers
(i.e. '\n'), not windows-style or old-macos-style.

For Python source code files, it also specifies that you should not insert tab
characters (so you should use spaces for Python block structure).

I generated this patch by writing and running the following script, and then
reading the resulting diff to make sure it was correct. I then undid the
changes that the script had done to the files inside the
"setuptools-0.6c16dev4.egg" directory before committing the patch.

------- begin appended script::
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8-with-signature-unix; fill-column: 77 -*-

import os

magic_header_line_comment_prefix = {
'.py': u"# ",
'.rst': u".. ",
}

def format():
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('.'):
for filename in filenames:
ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[-1]
if ext in ('.py', '.rst'):
fname = os.path.join(dirpath, filename)
info = open(fname, 'rU')
formattedlines = [ line.decode('utf-8') for line in info ]
info.close()

if len(formattedlines) == 0:
continue

outfo = open(fname, 'w')
outfo.write(u"\ufeff".encode('utf-8'))

commentsign = magic_header_line_comment_prefix[ext]

firstline = formattedlines.pop(0)
while firstline.startswith(u"\ufeff"):
firstline = firstline[len(u"\ufeff"):]
if firstline.startswith(u"#!"):
outfo.write(firstline.encode('utf-8'))
outfo.write(commentsign+"-*- coding: utf-8-with-signature-unix; fill-column: 77 -*-\n".encode('utf-8'))
if ext == '.py':
outfo.write(commentsign+"-*- indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-\n".encode('utf-8'))
else:
outfo.write(commentsign+"-*- coding: utf-8-with-signature-unix; fill-column: 77 -*-\n".encode('utf-8'))
if ext == '.py':
outfo.write(commentsign+"-*- indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-\n".encode('utf-8'))
if (firstline.strip().startswith(commentsign)) and ("-*-" in firstline) and ("coding:" in firstline):
print "warning there was already a coding line %r in %r" % (firstline, fname)
else:
outfo.write(firstline.encode('utf-8'))

for l in formattedlines:
if (l.strip().startswith(commentsign)) and ("-*-" in l) and ("coding:" in l):
print "warning there was already a coding line %r in %r" % (l, fname)
else:
outfo.write(l.encode('utf-8'))
outfo.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
format()