[Feature] Specify indent size / tab width in VSCode settings and/or editorconfig

[o-l-a-v]

Feature Request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Scoop has requirements to JSON indent type (spaces) and size (4) which could easily be enforced inside .vscode\settings.json and/or with EditorConfig.

VSCode settings

Example:

{
  ...
  "[json]": {
    "editor.autoIndent": "full",
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.json-language-features",
    "editor.detectIndentation": false,
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "editor.indentSize": 4
  },
  ...
}

EditorConfig

• About EditorConfig: https://editorconfig.org/
• EditorConfig extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EditorConfig.EditorConfig
• Sample .editorconfig file:

  root = true
  [*.json]
  indent_style = space
  indent_size = 4
  

Describe the solution you'd like

Add config to overwrite JSON indent type (spaces) and size (4) to all Scoop repositories.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None yet.

[niheaven]

There's an .editorconfig file w/ indent size 4 already.

[o-l-a-v]

Yes, wow, how did I not see that. Maybe because it does not actually override my own VSCode preferences for JSON.

Will look more into how EditorConfig works, or doesn't.

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Edit: For future reference I was hit by the following issues:

• 2022-11-26 "Blank EditorConfig still forces tab width to 4 and spaces to 2": Blank EditorConfig still forces tab width to 4 and spaces to 2 editorconfig/editorconfig-vscode#341
• 2023-01-25 "indent_size overrides tab_size for tab characters": indent_size overrides tab_size for tab characters editorconfig/editorconfig-vscode#346

My fix was to add in VSCode settings.json: editor.indentSize = "tabSize".