Actually I seem to recall bringing this up with Drogan a few months ago and
that there is no way to perfectly preserve the original formatting
converting a parsed file’s AST back to string so I have to find a way
forward with patch_string


- Brian


On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 9:56 AM Brian Cardarella <bcardare...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've run across too many people that have `mix format` as part of their
> editor workflow. PRs that include massive reformats. It doesn't happen
> often but it happens.
>
>
> - Brian
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 9:55 AM José Valim <jose.va...@dashbit.co> wrote:
>
>> The formatter is opt-in. Elixir does not call "mix format" for you.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 10:50 AM Brian Cardarella <bcardare...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You're correct that I'm probably coming at this from the wrong end. In
>>> lieu of not getting Sourceror to accept opting out of the formatter I was
>>> searching for ways to avoid the formatter from doing anything.
>>>
>>> As an aside, I realize the ship has sailed on this but I do wish the
>>> formatter was opt-in by design. Iteratively build your formatting
>>> preferences rather than default being anything at all. A single LOC to have
>>> the current settings, but still opt-in
>>>
>>> - Brian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 9:45 AM José Valim <jose.va...@dashbit.co>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think there is some confusion happening here.
>>>>
>>>> 1. I don't see a reason to allow mix format to be a no-op? If you don't
>>>> want to run the formatter, you can simply not run "mix format".
>>>>
>>>> 2. On the other hand, I don't think turning off the formatter will
>>>> address Sourceror. I believe it uses the formatting APIs to stitch the code
>>>> back together, regardless of mix format.
>>>>
>>>> In other words, I don't think the issue you have is mix format. It is
>>>> with whatever tool that is invoking it.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 10:41 AM Brian Cardarella <
>>>> bcardare...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I know that Sourceror has `patch_string` but that doesn't solve
>>>>> all the problems I'm tackling.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 9:40:42 AM UTC-4 Brian Cardarella wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I get that this would work but that feels hacky to me. Would you
>>>>>> accept a PR to provides an opt-out option? Also, why does `mix format`
>>>>>> format anything at all if `.formatter` isn't defined? I would have 
>>>>>> expected
>>>>>> that to be no-op.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My use cases:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. I don't like auto-formatters. We don't need to debate the merits
>>>>>> of this, just my preference
>>>>>> 2. Sourceror forces everything through the formatter. When converting
>>>>>> quoted back to strings despite all of the indentation information being
>>>>>> included in the AST nodes the formatter is still run. I'd much prefer if
>>>>>> the project itself opts out of the formatter that this doesn't happen and
>>>>>> re-format entire files on someone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 9:36:27 AM UTC-4 José Valim wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can probably change its inputs in .formatter.exs to point to a
>>>>>>> directory that does not exist.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 10:34 AM Brian Cardarella <
>>>>>>> bcard...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't see it in the docs, is there a way to turn off formatting
>>>>>>>> entirely so if `mix format` is run it just turns into a no-op?
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