elementary
FormatBar: absorb line width guide settings
Move this setting to the FormatBar since people may want to adjust this per-file and can be overwritten by editorconfig.
In a future branch, set item sensitivity when overwritten by editorconfig
Not sure about discoverabiity here - max line width seems unrelated to current line number and goto line number. I agree that as it a possible .editorconfig setting it belongs in the FormatBar though. Adding another button would conflict with attempts to reduce the minimum size so I am not sure what the best solution is.
Removing it from the preferences menu seems inconsistent to what was done with indent-size and indent-type which are still there.
Not sure about discoverabiity here - max line width seems unrelated to current line number and goto line number. I agree that as it a possible
.editorconfigsetting it belongs in the FormatBar though. Adding another button would conflict with attempts to reduce the minimum size so I am not sure what the best solution is.
Maybe together with the tab size and tab style? since they all are about code style.
The .editorconfig setting max_line_length is intended to force "hard line wrapping" at the specified line length according to https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/EditorConfig-Properties. Code does not currently support this. It does not even support soft line wrapping at a specified width - only at the edge of the widget. The only thing the "max width" setting currently does is allow drawing of a shaded line width guide. I guess we could (mis)use the editor-config setting to set the line-width guide on a per document basis. If this can change per document then there is probably no choice but to add another button to the FormatBar to make this visible to the user. If necessary the FormatBar could split like the SearchBar when the window width is insufficient.
The first task is to actually make the line-width guide settable per document and to follow the editorconfig setting in preference to the global app setting (like tab width).
Converting to draft as there a unresolved questions regarding the design and groundwork needs doing.