[MonoDevelop] Suggestion: Default policy for F# file types

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[MonoDevelop] Suggestion: Default policy for F# file types

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Would be good to have this

[funnelweb]

From @migueldeicaza

Hello guys, Small update. Michael tells me that you do not need to define a F# policy type, all you have to do is define a text policy scoped to the F# mime type:

<TextStylePolicy scope="text/x-fsharp">
        <FileWidth>120</FileWidth>
        <TabWidth>4</TabWidth>
        <IndentWidth>4</IndentWidth>
        <TabsToSpaces>False</TabsToSpaces>
        <NoTabsAfterNonTabs>False</NoTabsAfterNonTabs>
        <RemoveTrailingWhitespace>True</RemoveTrailingWhitespace>
        <EolMarker>Unix</EolMarker>
</TextStylePolicy>

Hey guys,
Is there a reason why the F# addin does not have its own configuration for "Convert Tabs to Spaces"?   
I would rather not have to set this globally, and luckily, MonoDevelop allows this to be set on a per-file type basis.
What you need to do is register a formatting setting for F# files.
To do this, you need to register a PolicySet for the F# mime type, you can see how the C# one does this for various styles here:
monodevelop/main/src/addins/CSharpBinding/CSharpBinding.addin.xml
And it looks like this:

            <Extension path = "/MonoDevelop/ProjectModel/PolicySets/VisualStudio" >
                    <Policies resource="FSharpVisualStudio.xml" />
            </Extension>

And then ship a FSharpVisualStudio.xml one, you probably want to copy the style we have in:
monodevelop/main/src/addins/CSharpBinding/MonoDevelop.CSharp.Formatting/policies/MonoCSharpPolicy.xml
Miguel.

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I did try implementing this some time ago exactly as detailed by @migueldeicaza but found there was no global options and the fsharp formatting was always overridden by default by the text format.

This is low priority in the scheme of things so anyone else please feel free to pick this up.

Closing this since it was opened 3 years ago. It likely still needs to be done but lets open a new issue with up-to-date information