formatter.nvim VS neoformat

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.

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).