[Feature Request] Automatically detect default formatter in project settings, and use that

[hamirmahal]

I've been having issues using VSCode with multiple different TypeScript formatters across several different codebases.

I've had to update @lang:typescriptreact @id:editor.defaultFormatter about 3 times in the past 3 or so days.

One codebase uses Prettier ESlint, so I manually update the default formatter for that codebase so that VSCode works well with it, but another uses biome, so I update the default formatter again, and yet another codebase uses just Pretter, without eslint, so I update the default formatter a 3rd time.

Is there a way to make VSCode automatically use the project formatter as the default? If not, I'd like to request that we add that as a feature.

I tried setting Editor: Default Formatter to None at the language level, and the User level, with no success.

I guess I could manually create a .vscode/settings.json file for every repository I work in, but that's kind of noisy.

[jrieken]

I guess I could manually create a .vscode/settings.json file for every repository I work in, but that's kind of noisy.

That's how you need to do it, ideally combined with workspace recommended extensions. We don't support workspace-scoped configuration outside of the workspace