Support language specific editor preferences

[simark]

Makefile syntax requires tab character for indentation, not spaces. Is it possible to do this currently with Theia? If so, how?

[hexa00]

You can set the monaco editor settings in .theia/settings.json IIRC
@epatpol I think you would know more ?

[epatpol]

Yes you can set settings available here, however I'm not sure if the monaco editor supports doing tabs instead of spaces... Maybe it's there somewhere in their documentation I'm not sure.

[simark]

But this is not really practical if you need other files to use space as indentation. I guess my question is more, how do we better handle per-file indentation settings. In VScode you can click in the status bar to change them quickly.

[akosyakov]

In VS code also such preferences can be configured per a language.

[epatpol]

Yes there should be different editors for different file types, maybe not completely different editors like in Eclipse (open with -> tons of choice) but maybe a user could create a new "editor", associate custom preferences to this one only and decide to use this one for certain files etc.

I'm not even sure this setting exists for monaco to solve this issue though.

[akosyakov]

It is not supported at the moment. We can implement it like in VS code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings#_language-specific-editor-settings

[kittaakos]

Yes there should be different editors for different file types

Related? #335