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Support EditorConfig format settings

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing how PSSA reads PSSASettings and applies formatting settings when invoked from the PWD, then review the EditorConfig format. Determine where an optional switch would disable .editorconfig loading and how existing settings take precedence; the work is done when supported settings are loaded without overriding explicit PSSASettings values and the opt-out behavior is verified.

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Description

Area - Configuration Issue-Enhancement

Summary of the new feature

It would be nice if PSSA could be able to leverage format settings inside a .editorconfig file so settings don't have to duplicated across multiple files.

https://editorconfig.org/

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

When PSSA is called and .editorconfig is in the PWD then leverage that file to fill in formatting settings if not already set in a PSSASettings file. A switch parameter could be used to also not leverage .editorconfig files.

What is the latest version of PSScriptAnalyzer at the point of writing

1.21

Dominant language
C#
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Merged PRs (30d)
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