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Visual Studio JSON indenting

Visual Studio seems to ignore my indenting setting for JSON files. It is indenting 4 spaces, instead of my setting of 2 spaces:
indenting settings

When I format the document it looks like this:

formatted document

I am using:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit)
Version 17.5.1

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    It turned out that the project had an .editorconfig file in the root folder with

    [*]
indent_style = space
indent_size = 4

    This was overriding all the indenting options since it was "Following the project coding conventions" enter image description here

    UX tip to Microsoft: make it somehow visible in the Options window that some settings are overridden.


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    If you leave indenting set to Smart or Block, it will match the rest of the file (or block) and ignore your choice.

    To reproduce this I followed these steps:

    • Set Indenting to "Smart" and Tab size/Indent Size to 8.
    • Create a file and add "sss":"x", and "js":"e" with size 8.
    • Change indenting to "None" and Tab/Indent to 3.
    • add "," to the "js" line and hit return.
    • It then uses size 3 as shown in the photo:
      example json
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