VSCode - Seem unable to get perltidy to trigger

[PaulGWebster]

Good day,

I managed to configure everything as I would like with critic and perlimports, the only issue I face is with perltidy, even though I can use it from command line with no issue and I have a fairly standard ~/.perltidyrc ( I even tried removing it just incase ).

But no matter what I do, be it saving the file or looking for perltidy in the 'power menu'(sp? - ctrl shift p) I cannot get perltidy to trigger, I checked for any extensions that could possible be interfering and can find nothing.

My config has the following:

    "perlnavigator.enableWarnings": true,
    "perlnavigator.perlcriticEnabled": true,
    "perlnavigator.perlcriticProfile": "~/.perlcriticrc",
    "perlnavigator.perltidyEnabled": true,
    "perlnavigator.perltidyProfile": "~/.perltidyrc",
    "perlnavigator.perlimportsLintEnabled": true,
    "perlnavigator.perlimportsTidyEnabled": true,
    "perlnavigator.perlimportsProfile": "~/.perlimports.toml"

Is anyone able to offer any insight?

[bscan]

Hi @PaulGWebster. To get perltidy to run, you'll need to either "Format Selection" or "Format Document" from the right click context menu or the ctrl+shift+P menu.

Perlimports tidy should also run at the same time since you have it on (perlimports provide diagnostics and formatting).

If you want it to run on save, you can set:

"editor.formatOnSave": true

However, I personally don't use formatOnSave since I often work on existing code that I don't want to re-format unless I explicitly request.

Let me know if you have any other issues or questions getting the Navigator up and running.

[bscan]

Closing for now, but feel free to re-open if I misunderstood.