Beautifier Profile Overrides - how do they work?

[ebbe]

I'm asking because I have created a couple of these and I don't see any effects of them in SE. I have tried the following locations:

• In a directory found by going up the directory tree
• In the directory where the .vpj files are found
• In the directory where the project source code is found

None of these placements have any effect; whenever I write something or press the Beautify button, SE uses the profile set in the Options for the language, not the one provided in the .seeditorconfig.xml file.

[patrick]

Go to Tools -> Options -> Editing -> General and make sure the "Apply .editorconfig, .seeditorconfig.xml settings" is "on".

The dialog that creates the .seeditorconfig overrides should probably at least give a link to this setting, or offer to turn it on if it's off when you're creating a new override.

[ebbe]

Thank you - that helped.

A link to the help entry from the dialog where you add these overrides would be very welcome.

[ebbe]

I have just upgraded to SE 2024/v29. There is still no link from the Beautifier override dialog to the settings and so I got bitten by this again. This is a clear case of the axiom "Something that must be remembered will be forgotten".

In fact, I think that enabling the first beautifier override should automatically enable at least the (se)editorconfig.xml that is created.