Surrounding whitespace in variable assignment

[allan2]

This is a feature request to format surrounding whitespace in variable assignment.

Example:

Format

a = 5

as

a=5

[mvdan]

I don't think we can do that; those are different and valid programs. For instance:

$ a() { echo "hello!" "$@"; }
$ a = 5
hello! = 5
$ echo $a

$ a=5
$ echo $a
5

shfmt is a code formatter, so it can't do any automated changes that will change the behavior of programs, because those could easily break user's programs.

[mvdan]

Closing as per the above.