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✨ EditorConfig Support

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
developer-experience

Research direction

Start by reading the linked EditorConfig specification and properties list, then inspect how workspace settings overrides are handled in CodeEdit. Clarify the supported properties and workspace-specific behavior before implementation; done should mean the agreed EditorConfig settings are applied consistently in the editor.

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Description

enhancement settings workspace
Description

EditorConfig is a useful file format for keeping code style the same across IDE’s. It has built-in support in numerous editors and is a fairly simple spec.

https://editorconfig.org/

All supported config options: https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/EditorConfig-Properties

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Additional Context

This would require workspace settings overrides, since the config would be workspace-specific.

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