formatter.nvim
By mhartington
mason.nvim
Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters. (by williamboman)
| formatter.nvim | mason.nvim | |
|---|---|---|
| 37 | 112 | |
| 1,390 | 8,265 | |
| 1.5% | 3.5% | |
| 7.6 | 7.2 | |
| 3 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| Lua | Lua | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
formatter.nvim
Posts with mentions or reviews of formatter.nvim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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null-ls will be archived
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?
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How to setup formatter for Python ???
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).
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Scalafmt and neovim
I use formatter.nvim for formatting
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Does a language server replace ALE, syntastic, and the language plugin?
For formatting, formatter.nvim is a good choice and has similar setup to nvim-lint.
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lsp.vim.buf.format parameters make tab indent 4 spaces
I finally installed this formatter plugin and configured it to execute de clang-format command like this
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A Minimal Neovim Configuration for TypeScript Development featuring Lazy.nvim, LSP, Tree-Sitter, Prettier, Guess-Indent
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.
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Editing the same file in a split causes vim to jump to the top of the file when saving with autoformatter
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.
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autoformat with lsp-zero
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/
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Neovim not formatting code correctly like VSCode does (prettier)
Take a look at formatter.nvim
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How does vim.lsp.buf.format() deal with multiple attached LSP clients?
I've had really good experience with formatter-nvim.
mason.nvim
Posts with mentions or reviews of mason.nvim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-02.
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How to setup VueJs in Neovim (January 2025)
Mason
- Mason.nvim: Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs
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Ultimate Neovim Setup Guide: lazy.nvim Plugin Manager
williamboman/mason.nvim: Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs.
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Multifunctional IDE using Neovim (1 of 3)
View on GitHub
- I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own (it wasn't easy)
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Using a venv with Neovim's Python LSP
I recently started coding with Neovim using kickstart.nvim as the template for my editor configuration. I downloaded the python-lsp-server package using Mason, but I was disappointed to discover that the IntelliSense on my third party dependencies didn't work. The LSP was resolving to my global Python installation, which did not have the packages from my virtual environment (venv) installed.
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Do I need NeoVIM?
https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp This is an autocompletion engine https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter This allows NeoVim to install parsing scripts so NeoVim can do things like code highlighting. https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim Not strictly necessary, but allows you to access a repo of LSP, install them, and configure them for without you actively messing about in config files. https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig Also not strictly necessary, but vastly simplifies LSP setup. https://github.com/williamboman/mason-lspconfig.nvim This lets the above two plugins talk to each other more easily.
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Do I need a plugin manager ?
I'm using mason.nvim to install my dependencies, I've this snippet at nvim/plugin/mason.lua so after cloning my dotfiles I can just run:
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Mason can't install gopls (or gofumpt, or goimports)
The suggestion from this thread fixed it for me. I just needed to unset GOOS and GOARCH then restart neovim.
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Neovim documentation is pretty bad
For instance, I'm trying to install rust-analyzer in lazyvim from https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim. The installation instructions are:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing formatter.nvim and mason.nvim you can also consider the following projects:
null-ls.nvim - Use Neovim as a language server to inject LSP diagnostics, code actions, and more via Lua.
coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.
vim-clang-format - Vim plugin for clang-format, a formatter for C, C++, Obj-C, Java, JavaScript, and so on.
lazy-lsp.nvim - Neovim plugin to auto install LSP servers
neoformat - :sparkles: A (Neo)vim plugin for formatting code.
nvim-jdtls - Extensions for the built-in LSP support in Neovim for eclipse.jdt.ls
lsp-format.nvim - A wrapper around Neovims native LSP formatting.
omnisharp-vim - Vim omnicompletion (intellisense) and more for C#
vim-autoformat - Provide easy code formatting in Vim by integrating existing code formatters.
cmp-nvim-lsp - nvim-cmp source for neovim builtin LSP client
efm-langserver - General purpose Language Server
lazy.nvim - 💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim
formatter.nvim vs null-ls.nvim
mason.nvim vs coc.nvim
formatter.nvim vs vim-clang-format
mason.nvim vs lazy-lsp.nvim
formatter.nvim vs neoformat
mason.nvim vs nvim-jdtls
formatter.nvim vs lsp-format.nvim
mason.nvim vs omnisharp-vim
formatter.nvim vs vim-autoformat
mason.nvim vs cmp-nvim-lsp
formatter.nvim vs efm-langserver
mason.nvim vs lazy.nvim