Why we don't just use .editorconfig

[GGYaX]

No need the comple xml configuration, it's works for other IDE.

[feross]

I'm not very familiar with .editorconfig, but it doesn't offer very many rules, it seems.

standard currently has at least 150 rules, including many that involve parsing the AST of the code in order to check for possible errors. This is, to my knowledge, beyond the scope of what .editorconfig can do.

[wesleytodd]

I think the idea here is not "fully supporting standard rules", it is that a few small things can be made easier on users who have to conform to multiple projects guidelines. So for example, the following file will nicely set my vim settings so a tab defaults to two spaces in my standard compliant projects, despite defaulting my editor to use tab characters normally:

# http://editorconfig.org
root = true

[*]
indent_size = 2
indent_style = space

Which is handy for people like me who use both happiness and standard on different projects.

See here for an example of this in action: https://github.com/wesleytodd/store-settings/blob/master/.editorconfig

[feross]

@wesleytodd Thanks for explaining further. I don't see what's stopping you from adding an .editorconfig to your project though. I don't think it's the place of standard to add files to your project.

[wesleytodd]

Oh maybe I also miss-understood the OP. I actually ended up here because I was going to copy the .editorconfig for this project into mine :) But didn't find one, and searched issues. So my assumption was that the OP here was asking why not add an .editorconfig to this project. Anyway, looks like I was wrong.

[GGYaX]

My idea was not about the rule. As I see in standard.xml in webstorm configuration, it can easily replaced by .editorconfig. And It can also be extended to other IDE.

[feross]

Ah, I see. I'm happy to accept a PR that adds an .editorconfig file to the repo. Cheers.