Option for local indentconfig.yaml or paths: in latexindent.yaml

[torik42]

I would like to have an option to specify local indentconfig.yaml files, or even better, include the paths: functionality in all the yaml configuration files.

Please correct me, if this is already possible. I couldn’t find anything in the documentation and couldn’t make it work. I tried to use

# latexindent.yaml
paths:
- /absolute/path/to/config.yaml

in the local directory and call latexindent with -l switch. The indent.log shows

INFO:  YAML settings read: -l switch
       Multiple localSettings found, separated by commas:
       localSettings.yaml, latexindent.yaml, .localSettings.yaml, .latexindent.yaml
       Adding latexindent.yaml to YAML read paths
INFO:  YAML settings, reading from the following files:
       Reading USER settings from latexindent.yaml
       ---
       paths:
         - /absolute/path/to/config.yaml

INFO:  Backup procedure (-w flag active):

So the /absolute/path/to/config.yaml was never read.

The idea is to have several configuration files with different replacements/configurations (the focus is on replacements, I think) and then choose the correct one according to the project. If the paths: entry would be parsed for every configuration file, one could even nest configuration files. This would be useful to allow for fine-grained selection and still providing a preselection in a single file which just loads multiple paths.

[cmhughes]

Many thanks, this sounds reasonable and, I hope, fairly straight forward to implement.

[cmhughes]

For my reference, it'll be this loop that needs updating

latexindent.pl/LatexIndent/GetYamlSettings.pm

Line 373 in 9052310

foreach my $settings (@absPaths) {

Note that it'll need to be documented that paths can not be specified using the y switch.

[torik42]

If anyone else is interested, as a workaround, I currently use

export LATEXINDENT_CONFIG=$(pwd)/indentconfig.yaml

to load a specific subset of additional rules with

# indentconfig.yaml
paths:
- path/to/default.yaml
- path/to/other-config-1.yaml
- path/to/other-config-2.yaml

It’s still not possible to nest them, but one can have multiple lists for different purposes.

[cmhughes]

This is implemented as of 1a629f2

It'll be part of the next release. Please leave this issue open until I've made the release, hopefully coming soon...

[cmhughes]

implemented and released at https://github.com/cmhughes/latexindent.pl/releases/tag/V3.24

[cmhughes]

https://latexindentpl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sec-appendices.html#paths-demonstration