Comment.nvim VS neoformat

Treesitter is a syntax parser that'll build a tree-like structure to enable anything from excellent syntax highlighting through to complex refactoring. There are so many creative ways you can use Treesitter, from jumping around text objects to commenting sections of code, it's a must-have in my books.

A couple nice quality of life plugins would be: Comment (which lets you use a keybinding to comment/uncomment things), Autopairs (which will make the paired brackets/parentheses/etc.), and Rainbow2 (which color-matches the pairs if things like parentheses).

I am reading the documentation for the [Comments](https://github.com/numToStr/Comment.nvim] plugin with :h comment.config and I see this

I was wondering what plugins you use for comments, actually, I'm using numToStr/Comment.

Nowadays, people (mostly) autogenerate their help docs with either markdown or emmmylua are their source. You are facing an issue that I faced before with Comment.nvim.

Comment.nvim?

Based on your reply I recommend taking out the comment plugin, replacing it with https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects and https://github.com/numToStr/Comment.nvim

I see that AstroNvim uses null-ls.nvim to format files. That does not format Markdown tables, so I added use of the Neoformat plugin to do that. But there is a major issue that I described here: https://github.com/sbdchd/neoformat/issues/457.

hi, this is perfect!!! Thanks for recommending. here is a link for anyone curious: https://github.com/sbdchd/neoformat

You could use Neoformat, and manually run :NeoFormat! pgFormater on a visual selection or create an autocmd to do the same automatically on save.

I like https://github.com/sbdchd/neoformat for that usecase. I was able to simplify my init.lua a lot by switching from null-ls.

Pick your poison (in no particular order): - au BufWritePre *.py %!isort -d - - https://github.com/sbdchd/neoformat - https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim - https://github.com/jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim - ...

For me, neoformat is the best 👍

NeoFormat

There are plenty of code-formatting plugins, like auto-format and neoformat, for vim. But all of them require running a certain command or using :w to trigger formating.

You can use it with neoformat, they have instructions in the README to set up formatting on save. Which is what you want. Or you could create an autocommand/mapping to run shfmt on the current buffer without having to install a plugin.

Formatting - I just use prettier with neoformat. For indent size, I just do setlocal tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 within ftplugin/javascriptreact.vim (and others - probably a better way to do this but it works).