Fallback to ~/.atom/.editorconfig

[svoop]

Editorconfig clashes e.g. with widely used Whitespace. However, disabling Whitespace is not really an option because you may use Atom in places where no .editorconfig is defined – most notably when using remote-atom.

How about adding a fallback to ~/.atom/.editorconfig if no .editorconfig is found down the current path? This way, Whitespace could be dropped in favour of Editorconfig everywhere.

[florianb]

Hi @svoop - thanks for your suggestion. You are absolutely right, currently this case is not properly handled by this package.

We won't support a "user"-based default .editorconfig because this is not part of the editorconfig-standard. Besides of that you're able to imitate such a behavior by putting a .editorconfig-file into a upper level-folder which is then recognized by the editorconfig-parser.

But to get back to your point, i would like to introduce a automated "deactivation" of packages in the fututure. But since this is a pretty intrusive procedure this is something which must be done pretty careful.

So unless this is solved in a satisfying way, we enabled a notification about potential misbehavior. I hope this explains why we are at the current state of functionality. ☕️

[svoop]

@florianb

But to get back to your point, i would like to introduce a automated "deactivation" of packages in the fututure. But since this is a pretty intrusive procedure this is something which must be done pretty careful.

Indeed, and with an opt-out fallback to the current behaviour maybe. I'd opt-in though 😄

[florianb]

I am aware of your point. Sindre Sorhus advised me rightly to stick to a smart solution rather than introducing configuration-options. Give me some more time to think about how this could be solved the smart way.

[Alhadis]

Currently, any EditorConfig setting that's unset will defer to the usual default configured in Atom's settings. This is a sane fallback with minimal surprises; if a user wishes to configure their preferred default, it can be done in ~/.atom/config.cson instead of duplicating the preference between two config files (~/.atom/config.cson and ~/.atom/.editorconfig).

As for the whitespace package... well, I'll work on bitch-slapping it into submission. 😉