Validator rule for .editorconfig file

[tarlepp]

It's quite common that repository that doesn't have this .editorconfig file, people who contribute that repository will use different settings for eg. following;

• Line endings
• Indentation rules
• etc

And to make some common ground for all .editorconfig is the rescue - https://editorconfig.org/

[Hekku2]

To define this further:

1. Are there some cases when .editorconfig is not needed? ie. some project type / ide which doesn't support this? It would be good if we can automatically take these into account
2. I think could also have automatic fix, or at least we can offer a base for editor config, similar to readme.md base? Are there some defaults we could offer here?

[Hekku2]

@tarlepp Do you have some kind of statistics where .editorconfig is usually located?

[tarlepp]

@tarlepp Do you have some kind of statistics where .editorconfig is usually located?

In the root of the repository, there might be some other subdirectories too - but the main one should be in the repository root - and sorry for late answer. - https://editorconfig.org/#file-location

[tarlepp]

2. I think could also have automatic fix, or at least we can offer a base for editor config, similar to readme.md base? Are there some defaults we could offer here?

For this I wouldn't make PR to fix that, issue itself could just point to EditorConfig - and why that?

• Different projects/teams are using different style of eg. indentation rules
• I don't think that we really can make one base to rule those all - that's why the link to official site should be enough - https://editorconfig.org/#example-file

[tarlepp]

1. Are there some cases when .editorconfig is not needed? ie. some project type / ide which doesn't support this? It would be good if we can automatically take these into account

If it's not needed that repository could add that check to ignore list - right?

IDE support of .editorconfig is quite massive - https://editorconfig.org/#download