Bug 389934

Summary:	Allow reading directory config on remote filesystem (like sftp or fish)
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-ktexteditor	Reporter:	Jimmy Berry <jimmy>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aspotashev, gszymaszek
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402609
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jimmy Berry 2018-02-06 00:02:12 UTC

I generally never work locally, but work on projects with .editorconfig. If I copy the config and a file locally and open kate applies the settings appropriately, but opening via kio wrapper the settings are not applied.

It seems understandable that not everyone would want this feature remotely depending on their circumstances and the underlying implementation, but having the ability to enable it would be rather useful. Perhaps limit the number of parent directories to search.

Comment 1 Jimmy Berry 2018-02-06 00:05:36 UTC

Looks like

KTextEditor::DocumentPrivate::readDirConfig()
{
    if (!url().isLocalFile()) {
        return;
    }

...

is to blame, just a condition around that would be handy.

Comment 2 Grzegorz Szymaszek 2019-01-09 08:10:11 UTC

Note that .editorconfig files are opened by the editorconfig-core-c library, not KTextEditor. As such, I’m not sure if it’s possible at all to read remote config files. The editorconfig_parse function: https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-core-c/blob/a8fae2375e67887bd73baa11d921339f24e8b9a9/src/lib/editorconfig.c#L406

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2023-04-16 16:41:41 UTC

Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last two years and no contributor stepped up to implement it.

The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs.

Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users.
If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it.

If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind,
if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it,
it will expire in a year again.

We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it.

e.g. see the information at https://kate-editor.org/join-us/ for details

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann