Option Request: configurable empty multiple lines

[manuel-di-iorio]

I'm using prettier alongside eslint with the airbnb style rule: "no-multiple-empty-lines": ["error", { "max": 2 }]

Due to prettier, unfortunally this:

a = 1


b = 2

Becomes:

a = 1

b = 2

As I said in the prettier-eslint issue (prettier/prettier-eslint#176), opinionated behavior should only be the default and always should be configurable, to allow maximum flexibility of this awesome tool.

Ref: #1613

There are already some options in prettier, but this is missing unless it's not documented: https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html

[kachkaev]

It is unlikely that this option will be added @manuel-di-iorio. See Prettier's option philosophy.

[manuel-di-iorio]

Excuse me sir but the option philosophy is inconsistent, if there are already 15 options, why not extend it to cover all formatting behaviors 🤔

I mean, I understand that adding new options is not possible anymore, was only thinking about. Closing this issue :)

[kachkaev]

Each of the Prettier options would not exist if could be avoided. They either have a legacy background or a very long community discussion (e.g. #812).

What you are proposing is a purely stylistic change, which can be easily skipped without any harm to code executability and readability.

By far the biggest reason for adopting Prettier is to stop all the on-going debates over styles.