Hi EditorConfig developers and contributors

 

I’m a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team. 


In response to strong customer support for the feature (see 
*https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/6146845-support-editorconfig*
 
<https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/6146845-support-editorconfig>
 
for example), we’re looking at  providing all-new, native support for 
EditorConfig in the core Visual Studio product in a future release.   We 
would aim to make the new EditorConfig support in Visual Studio propagate 
settings to VS in a manner that is more flexible and usable than what is 
currently possible for a VS extension.

 

In addition, we’re planning work to provide smart support for other coding 
convention settings in our language services, and we’d like to leverage 
EditorConfig to express a (potentially large) number of such settings, via 
domain-specific entries in an EditorConfig file. We would want to do so in 
a manner that does not cause any trouble or collisions for other 
EditorConfig implementations (see my colleague Oleg’s *a conversion on 
editorconfig mail list* 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/editorconfig/7w9BmR8LBmU>), so for 
those settings, we’d want to follow what seems to be the normal pattern of 
editorname_settingname.

 

I wanted to reach out to the EditorConfig community at this stage, and ask:

 

1.       Is adding (potentially large) numbers of custom settings to the 
format for our purposes reasonable?

2.       Are there particular ways you’d prefer us to work with the format 
as we do this?

 

Thanks in advance for your commentary and help,

 

Regards

Mark Wilson-Thomas

Program Manager, Visual Studio Editor Team

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