Selene should search for configuration files that begin with a dot

[tomodachi94]

Selene should allow prefixing all of its configuration with a dot. StyLua allows this.

This would aid with having developer tooling configurations being distinguished from ordinary source files.

[tomodachi94]

For example, I would have a file, .selene.toml, that contains the same things as selene.toml. In addition, I would have a .my-custom-stdlib.yaml file that contains my custom standard library. In my selene.toml, I would source it as my-custom-stdlib.

[tomodachi94]

Workaround: Specify the --config option when running selene, and prefix your std with a dot.

[Kampfkarren]

.selene.toml seems fine, but I think standard libraries should just work with putting the dot in the std name itself, we already have a bunch of weird combinatorics with them

[Zeioth]

This is a convention of most formaters/linters. It would be very desireable.

[chriscerie]

Is there a stronger motivation for this? Introducing multiple ways to do the same thing is not great, and eslint is moving away from such behavior.

[LastTalon]

eslint is moving away from such behavior.

ESLint is moving away from their old config format entirely. It's not really about prefixing with a ., which is usually just to treat the config as a hidden file.

[chriscerie]

eslint is moving away from such behavior.

ESLint is moving away from their old config format entirely. It's not really about prefixing with a ., which is usually just to treat the config as a hidden file.

I more meant there doesn’t seem to be a strong enough use case for eslint to support dot-prefixed configs in their new system. What’s different about lua where this would be worth a more complicated config resolution?

[chriscerie]

I'm going to close this for now as I don't see the benefits worth the added complexity. I'm not entirely opposed to reopening this in the future if there's a stronger motivation.

[Zeioth]

chriscerie as already mentioned, it is a strong convention for all linters across all operative systems.

You can check out other tools.