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sindresorhus / atom-editorconfig

Helps developers maintain consistent coding styles between different editors
https://atom.io/packages/editorconfig
MIT License
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linter-editorconfig? #189

Closed danielbayley closed 7 years ago

danielbayley commented 7 years ago

I was just wondering if this package might be better as a linter plugin? linter-editorconfig maybe…

florianb commented 7 years ago

Hi @danielbayley - thanks for your suggestion. I know about the linter-environment. But i believe Atom-Editorconfig stays better a stand-alone package since it actively manipulates the editor's inner settings. Even though it is able to indicate some errors in your current files it is more about ensuring your editor is set up according to your .editorconfig settings.

This question also popped up in a different thread a while ago and the second reason why i won't implement a linter for editorconfig is the fact that most of the editorconfig-errors come in big bunch (f.e. all leading whitespaces are wrong formatted). Most of these errors also treat "invisible" aspects of the file - having a linter pointing these out gets pretty fast very annoying, i guess.

I hope this explains the reasoning why we aren't considering putting a linter-editorconfig up.