Hong Xu

That's a very interesting point as in the Java world has a relatively homogeneous formatter usage. If this is the case, why not use a formatter-specific configuration tool, as almost...

I don't think I myself can make the decision :) This IMO should require a voting, if we wanna make such structural changes. Let's wait until the voting on @ppalaga...

The file is not supposed to be changed by editors. However, since they are settings specific to an editor, it should have its own formats and you can pass them...

@matthew-dean I didn't use the correct words. It should be "if you have GUI support, not all features can be supported". For example, You can have hierarchical structure of `.editorconfig`...

@mureinik Thanks for pointing out this issue. In the git repo itself, `README.md` is trivial, `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md` already has a license, but `CONTRIBUTING.md` is the only one that may cause issue....

@jedhunsaker I agree. It is kind of hard to implement this for all properties within one tool. So maybe we can invent a relatively general tool to handle some of...

I don't have time to maintain it, but I'm happy to hand it over and help with the idea of the code base (even if you would like to start...

I don't quite understand what the JSON part means. Can you illustrate?

I'm a bit confused. I thought you are suggesting some format compliance in the editorconfig files for different editors when they specify their editor specific options. Are you suggesting that...

@osdm Ah I see. For some reasons I misunderstood it as editor-specific options. OK, now I agree with you: We should do this. The difficulty now is that, if we...