Convenient default options

[sir4ur0n]

Hi,

Is there some way to configure the default GHC options (like extensions) not enabled by default, like XTypeApplications? We really don't want to repeat the pragma in each of our file...

For the moment what we do in my team is:

# shell.nix
let
  # Wrap Ormolu to add our default extensions that are not enabled by default in Ormolu
  # Run 'ormolu --manual-exts' to find out which extensions are not enabled by default
  # Inspired by https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Cookbook
  # If for whatever reason you want to reformat the whole code base, run:
  # for f in ./**/*.hs; do
  #   ormolu --mode inplace "$f"
  # done
  ormolu-wrapped = symlinkJoin {
    name = "ormolu";
    paths = [ ormolu ];
    buildInputs = [ pkgs.makeWrapper ];
    postBuild = ''
     wrapProgram $out/bin/ormolu \
       --add-flags "\
         --ghc-opt -XBangPatterns \
         --ghc-opt -XTypeApplications \
       "
    '';
  };
in
  mkShell {
    buildInputs = [
        ormolu-wrapped
        # Other build inputs
    ];

  # Other conf, like env vars
  }

However:

• this feels hack-ish
• relies on Nix (+ don't forget to use direnv or run inside a nix-shell otherwise the code will be changed, cf https://github.com/tweag/ormolu/issues/452 Ormolu changes the code)
• it already seems that different people use different tricks (see https://github.com/tweag/ormolu/issues/517 where they use Perl parsing)

I feel like supporting an Ormolu configuration file at the root of the project would be an improvement for such a use case.

I am aware of:

• https://github.com/tweag/ormolu/pull/157 (YAML configuration file support removed)
• https://github.com/tweag/ormolu/issues/517 to automagically discover default extensions from build files. What I'm asking is simpler: support default configuration in a dedicated Ormolu file

Thank you for Ormolu and cheers!

[seagreen]

I'm not sure this exists, but if there was something like https://editorconfig.org/ that allowed you to choose what executable + arguments to use to format any given file type that would be a nice general solution.

[seagreen]

Also see: https://github.com/tweag/ormolu/issues/452