feature suggestion: formatter

[emicklei]

hi,

I am currently working on a proto definition file parser+formatter (https://github.com/emicklei/proto)
The protofmt tool can take a file and produce a formatted version (according to Google practices).

Would you be interested in adding this feature to your plugin? The tool is just a binary that needs to be called.

[zxh0]

hi, thank you for this information, i will try it when i get some time ; )

[emicklei]

some info https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/11/15/formatters-best-practices

let me know when I can be of any help

[mprobst]

clang-format has support for proto formatting and is commonly used inside of Google for that.

[zxh0]

i finally decided to using clang-format, thank you @emicklei and @mprobst

[nicolas-martin]

I know this thread is dead, but is there a way to run a command on save? Prototool provides a formatter so you only need to to run prototool format dirOrProtoFiles -w

edit: saw you implemented it but for some reason the formatter doens't work for me