Option to permit different indentations inside and outside multiline strings

[tchwpkgorg]

I have a bash script which has multiline variables, which begin lines with spaces:

#!/bin/bash

RULES="rules:
  - when: manual  # <-----  two spaces at the beginning of the line
    allow_failure: true"  # <-----  four spaces at the beginning of the line

My .editorconfig assumes tabs:

[shell]
indent_style = tab
indent_size = 4

[*.sh]
indent_style = tab
indent_size = 4

When I run it against editorconfig, I get an error, like:

	4: Wrong indentation type(spaces instead of tabs)
	5: Wrong indentation type(spaces instead of tabs)

Is there a rule to make editorconfig ignore the contents of bash variables?

[cxw42]

Thanks for reporting! Could you please post the steps you used to get the above output? I think the answer probably depends on exactly which tools you are using.

[tchwpkgorg]

Not exactly sure! My editorconfig is running as a part of megalinter, which reports it as editorconfig issue.

[cxw42]

I've never heard of megalinter --- is it this? https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/blob/main/megalinter/descriptors/editorconfig.megalinter-descriptor.yml

Your request is reasonable, but I don't know a way to support it. EditorConfig only stores one set of conventions per file, and doesn't know anything about blocks within files. I have noted this issue in the wider discussion at #415 (comment).

Edit As of right now, the checker would have to implement a custom property supporting this behaviour.

(note: the above link for megalinter appears to delegate to https://github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker/blob/main/pkg/validation/validation.go, which uses the golang core.)