Way to Disable Brittany?

[Weizilla]

Is there a way to disable brittany? I would like to use a different formatter but I'm guessing that would be too difficult so I'm ok with disabling brittany in hie and just having my editor (VS Code) call a different formatter on save.

[lukel97]

Does unselecting Format on Save in the VS Code settings disable the formatting for you?

[Weizilla]

Ideally, I would like to use a different formatter but still have it execute on save and when using the Format Code editor command.

I thought maybe VS Code delegated everything to hie including the formatting so if I turned off brittany in hie, I could tell VS Code to use something else like hindent. Would that not work?

[Weizilla]

There's an issue open with the VS Code HIE extension asking for the same thing: haskell/vscode-haskell#79

[lukel97]

I think we could use the dynamic capability stuff to disable formatting with HIE, not sure if the internals support it yet.
We could also just add the other formatter into HIE ;)

[alanz]

We could also just have a config flag that turns formatting requests into a NOP. And/or selects the specific formatter to use.

Realistically, formatting is one of those things that everyone has their own opinion on, so we need to expose as much flexibility as possible.