Visualstudio-docs: UI support

[Campbellony]

I like this addition. I'm curious if there are plans for a UI to help design these files. I'm thinking something like the settings tab in the project properties.

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• ID: 72f45eb4-3596-866a-2c16-ee225737d956
• Version Independent ID: cea055e7-fe9b-95c7-6d25-086f182c01d2
• Content: Using EditorConfig settings in Visual Studio - Visual Studio
• Content Source: docs/ide/create-portable-custom-editor-options.md
• Product: visual-studio-dev15
• GitHub Login: @gewarren
• Microsoft Alias: gewarren

[gewarren]

There may be plans for a UI designer - hopefully the product team will answer that. Also, if your codebase is C#, you can use the IntelliCode extension for VS to automatically create/infer an .EditorConfig file. See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/07/17/visual-studio-intellicode-inferring-coding-conventions-for-consistent-code/ and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/intellicode/intellicode-visual-studio.

[cremor]

VS2019 will have a feature to export an EditorConfig file from the current VS settings.

[gewarren]

@cremor Thanks for bumping this issue, and you are correct, Visual Studio 2019 includes a button on the text editor code style options page to generate an .EditorConfig file from your settings:

[mloskot]

plans for a UI to help design these files.

The world is shifting towards editing basic human-friendly formats (e.g. JSON).
We need no UI. We need no more UI bloat in VS. Learn to use your text editor.
The EditorConfig format is easy peasy to understand.