formattingToggle.deactivateFor

[Jonas1312]

Thanks for your extension 🙂

That would be nice to have an option formattingToggle.deactivateFor, in my case I would like to disable formatOnSave but keep formatOnPaste and formatOnType when I'm contributing to existing code.

Thanks

[Tom-Bonnike]

Hey. Unless I’m misunderstanding, this is already possible with:

"formattingToggle.activateFor": ["formatOnPaste", "formatOnType"]

[Jonas1312]

Sorry it wasn't clear.

When I click the "formatting" button your extension disable all three options (formatOnPaste, formatOnType, formatOnSave). I would like to keep formatOnType and formatOnPaste enabled.

If I'm not mistaken "formattingToggle.activateFor" works only when you enable formatting, but it's not possible to control which of the three settings your extension disable

[Tom-Bonnike]

Would this work for you?

{
  "editor.formatOnSave": false,
  "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
  "editor.formatOnType": true,
  "formattingToggle.activateFor": ["formatOnPaste", "formatOnType"]
}

I think that should work the way you want it.

[Jonas1312]

Nope that's not really what I'm looking for

I would like two configurations, that is, two states:

• State 1: everything on, I use this configuration when I'm working alone on a project, so that all my codes are properly formatted with the same formatter.

  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
  "editor.formatOnType": true,

• State 2: everything on except format all document (formatOnSave), which is convenient when contributing to existing code which wasn't properly formatted, and you don't want a minor change to modify the whole file.

  "editor.formatOnSave": false,
  "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
  "editor.formatOnType": true,

I tried your suggestion:

{
  "editor.formatOnSave": false,
  "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
  "editor.formatOnType": true,
  "formattingToggle.activateFor": ["formatOnPaste", "formatOnType"]
}

and the two states it produced are:

• State 1: toggle formatting off => everything off

  "editor.formatOnSave": false,
  "editor.formatOnPaste": false,
  "editor.formatOnType": false,

• State 2: toggle formatting on => everything on except format all document (formatOnSave)

  "editor.formatOnSave": false,
  "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
  "editor.formatOnType": true,

[Tom-Bonnike]

Oh. I understand now, although I have to admit I dont really see what the actual use-case is (does formatOnType really only format a specific portion of the code?! Prettier only runs on the full file, no?).
The point of this extension is to quickly enable/disable all formatting you want to use. Not allow you to toggle on/off specific settings at different times 😅

You might want to look into other extensions such as https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rebornix.toggle.
I’ll close this, happy to reconsider if more people want something like this, but again I’m not sure it gives much value.

[Tom-Bonnike]

I want to tackle this, moved to #48