Separate config files for user/environment specific settings

[likeadeckofcards]

Has there been any exploration into allowing multiple files based on naming convention that would allow users to override settings for their specific environment and can be ignored by VCS so the settings are not sent to other users on the project.

Ex.
.editorconfig - defaults
local.editorconfig or .editorconfig.local for user specific

[craigbarnes]

I've thought about something like this, but I'm not sure if your use case is the same as mine. I sometimes write my own notes, todo files, build configs, etc. in git repo directories and they're always matched by the [*] rule, even though they're never intended to be checked into the repo.

I'm thinking of adding something like this to my editorconfig implementation (and possibly contributing it to editorconfig-core-c too). A more complete description of your use case would help inform what the implementation should look like.

[likeadeckofcards]

@craigbarnes The idea here is that the organization has a format that would be in a base config to force all of the code into the same format. However, some people like to view their code slightly different than the format provided by the base config. This config we would not want to be added to any kind of repo to prevent user specific settings from being distributed to the rest of the organization.

[craigbarnes]

some people like to view their code slightly different than the format provided by the base config

Slightly different how? With different indent settings?

The implementation I had in mind was to allow a second config file in each directory that would take precedence over .editorconfig. It'd be exactly equivalent to just appending the contents to the bottom of .editorconfig, but with the benefit of not changing the git index if .editorconfig is a tracked file.

The only way I could see it working for your use case though, is if the base config and your overrides both agree on using indent_style = tab and you only want to change the display width of tabs (tab_width).