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by SideburnsOfDoom 3260 days ago
> Honestly I don't think much is solved by EditorConfig.

No, it doesn't solve all the things. My experience is that it addresses one specific annoyance - team members checking in changes with varying line endings and spaces/tabs settings - and makes it a thing of the past.

For solving that one thing, I like it a lot.
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mhw 3260 days ago
Well, it moves the problem to making sure that all team members have the right plugins installed and bother to use them. Depending on the make up of your team, that could be a hard problem.
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SideburnsOfDoom 3260 days ago
It moves the problem from "could you submit your PR with spaces not tabs, the spurious diff is not good" and "but it doesn't matter, I don't care" on a regular basis; to "let's install this plugin to your IDE and neither of us has to worry about it again - you get ease and I get consistency".

If this is really a hard problem for a team then it's down to the people not the tools.

There is in my experience no "bother to use them" part, it happens automatically when a file is saved.

Even better, "the right plugins" might be none at all. Some IDEs come with editorconfig support out of the box: https://sorokoletov.com/2016/11/28/editorconfig-in-visualstu...

In short, if you have these specific problems, life really is easier with editorconfig.

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