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Feature Request: Support .editorconfig files

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#322 opened on Sep 18, 2018

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Description

When collaborating with others it could be really useful to support .editorconfig files: https://editorconfig.org/ Please evaluate whether you would like to implement this. Maybe some code could be borrowed from KTextEditor (https://phabricator.kde.org/D4537) which already has support for this.

I would especially enjoy support for things like trim_trailing_whitespace, see https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/Property-research:-Trim-trailing-spaces since that would help keeping a clean diff.

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Research direction
Study the EditorConfig specification and existing implementations like KTextEditor's patch. Then explore how TeXstudio handles file properties and settings to integrate editorconfig support.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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C++Git
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60