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.
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.
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.