How to customize gofmt behaviour?

[Paxa]

Is it possible to disable or customize some gofmt rules?

May be it support some config file? Support for something like .gofmt_config in project folder would be perfect

I prefer to keep spaces around math symbols

a = perPage*(pageNumber+checkNextPageCount-1) + 1
records[len(records)-1]

// I like with spaces
a = perPage * (pageNumber + checkNextPageCount - 1) + 1
records[len(records) - 1]

[ianlancetaylor]

It is an intentional design choice that there are no configuration options for gofmt. The benefit of eliminating bike shed discussion about formatting choices is considered to be more important than the cost of not permitting people to use their preferred style. The usual saying is that gofmt isn't anybody's preferred style, but it's adequate for everybody.

[Paxa]

Thanks.
Every linting and formatting tool that I've used have configuration. So every team can choose their comfortable style and the use the tool to maintain it

The usual saying is that gofmt isn't anybody's preferred style, but it's adequate for everybody who still using it.

[ianlancetaylor]

Well, as I say, this was an intentional choice. It's often said that Go is an opinionated language, and this is one of the opinions that it holds. https://go-proverbs.github.io/ .