Excluding formatting of code lines or blocks selectively

kamadorueda / alejandra

The Uncompromising Nix Code Formatter

https://kamadorueda.github.io/alejandra/

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Open johnalotoski opened 2 years ago

johnalotoski commented 2 years ago

Feature request:

Occasionally there is a section of code in a nix file which I'd like to purposely exclude from formatting for various reasons
In these cases, the option of excluding code formatting on a single line basis (ex: comment exclusion identifier) or code block basis (between exclusion demarcation identifiers) would be a nice feature to have.
In these cases, whole file basis exclusion is not granular enough

Thanks for this great formatter!

blaggacao commented 2 years ago

from black a spec could be

# fmt: on
# fmt: off

or branded (:smile:):

# ale: on
# ale: off

adrian-gierakowski commented 2 years ago

this would also provide a way temporarily work around bugs while they are being fixed