editorconfig/editorconfig-vim — comment on commit 2df0e972039e98dca585c70fdcc375028624fdd7
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By treyhunner:

That's a good point. Maybe we should put this feature in the EditorConfig core instead.

If we ever decide there is a use case for checking whether tab_width is specified in a plugin (or another program that uses EditorConfig) we could work with plugin developers to phase out that functionality in the core or add a switch to turn it off.