Well, we need a good definition of what constitutes a pref and what is a pure view state. I talked to @peterflynn and his view seems to be different from you. He considers any settings that users do not want to share across machines to be a view setting regardless of whether the user can change it from the UI. We talked about three settings that users can change from Brackets UI; sorting order in the working set, case and regexp settings in Find bar and livedev highlighting. I was originally thinking all of them to be actual pref, but he convinced me to see them as view settings.