dotfiles VS formatter.nvim

I never figured out null-ls for some reason but currently use formatter.nvim to run prettier on save... I do have eslint and typescript diagnostics ...setup looks like this for lsp https://github.com/cmdcolin/dotfiles/blob/master/lua/settings.lua and this for formatting https://github.com/cmdcolin/dotfiles/blob/master/lua/formatting.lua is

personally, i have not had a good experience with integrating eslint, and the prettier experience required some hand-rolling my own config. methods like null-ls never seemed to click with me, so i don't use it. i have auto-format-on-save with prettier using formatter.nvim. my setup https://github.com/cmdcolin/dotfiles

generally for autoimports I have to hit tab and it brings up an auto-complete popup menu next to the cursor, and then it will auto-import the thing I selected from the auto-complete. I don't have any special code that does this in my config afaik so it might be something lsp helps with https://github.com/cmdcolin/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc

I was starting to do this here https://github.com/cmdcolin/dotfiles/pull/1/files

Can anyone explain why someone would use null-ls if you're using the modern lsp setup (say, from kickstart.nvim). I see comments mentioning formatting. I see formatters mentioned several times. Why not just use https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim?

I use null-ls (https://github.com/jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim), I haven't tried it for python, but haven't had trouble with lua, js, ts or rust. You can also look into formatter.nvim (https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim).

I use formatter.nvim for formatting

For formatting, formatter.nvim is a good choice and has similar setup to nvim-lint.

I finally installed this formatter plugin and configured it to execute de clang-format command like this

mhartington/formatter.nvim is used for automatic code formatting. Its configuration also shows how to use nvim_create_augroup and nvim_create_autocmd from Lua.

This might have something to do with extmarks being clobbered when the new text is written. For example, here is a GitHub issue describing the problem: https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim/issues/22 This is for formatter.nvim, but this would likely apply to any process that rewrites the whole buffer.

i have always had trouble with lsp formatting and null-ls (may just be me, i'm not super clued in) so i use formatter.nvim https://github.com/mhartington/formatter.nvim/

Take a look at formatter.nvim

I've had really good experience with formatter-nvim.