Allow to skip formatting code in specific cells

[cscheid]

See specifically quarto-dev/quarto-cli#13335 (comment)

Discussed in quarto-dev/quarto-cli#13335

^{Originally posted by hfrick September 5, 2025}

Description

I'm preparing slides via quarto and generally use air to format my code. For some of the code cells, I'd like to skip the formatting. I can do that with air's # fmt: skip, but then it shows up on the resulting slide. Since these are workshop slides, I'd like to avoid this since it would probably be a distraction to learners. Is there a way to skip formatting specific cells without it showing on the slide? Would something like #| format: skip be possible?

I have seen quarto-dev/quarto-cli#12082 but I think it's related but different.

[cderv]

Thanks for opening the issue !

I would have thought this would not be a Quarto CLI issue, but should be a quarto-dev/quarto issue, as it seems something related in how the code cell is processed by Quarto extension to be sent to the formatter.

I get this from Devis comment quarto-dev/quarto-cli#13335 (reply in thread) and how formatBlock works in Quarto Extension https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto/blob/21d404d0ecb3ea28ca51b40e0e02c45e14dd7e96/apps/vscode/src/providers/format.ts#L207-L232

Did you have any Quarto CLI idea in mind for this ?

[cscheid]

No - it's just that I needed to open an issue here before transferring it to quarto/quarto. Then github logged me out and I forgot to followup on the weekend :)