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EditorConfig support built-in to your text editor is the pipe dream. JetBrains 9 will have EditorConfig support, but no other editors yet support it natively so all of the plugins are necessary currently.

Unfortunately many editors do not support project-level configuration files by default. A conversion tool could be a good way to make global configurations even more accessible for editors that do support project configuration files and don't have native EditorConfig support yet.

Until native support becomes more common, EditorConfig acts as an unopinionated universal editor-level linter of sorts.