project level editor settings?

[danbjoseph]

is there a way to change editor settings automatically at the project level? e.g. i have the main settings for Tab Type set to "hard" but i'm working on a project that needs it set to "soft" and i don't want to adjust it in the main settings every time i switch projects. i tried to find this in the docs and with a web search but missed it or wasn't using the right words to search.

[savetheclocktower]

There's an API for this that was added to Atom, but which didn't ever have a built-in interface. But you can install either atomic-management or project-config to pull this off.

For both packages, you'd create a file inside an .atom directory at the root of your project — either config.cson (for atomic-management) or config.json (for project-config). You can then define overrides using the same format as your base config.cson file. Assuming you choose atomic-management, it'd look like this:

"*":
  editor:
    softTabs: true