ElixirLS stopped working: "Unable to find formatter"

I need to improve the experience on that front. The build can fail for hundreds of reasons and asking the user to run mix deps.get on every failure would be misleading

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I was getting the “Unable to find formatter” error in an umbrella app (auction_umbrella in “Elixir in Action 1.4”), but I really didn’t care if my code was formatted according to some spec. However, when I opened a terminal window in vscode, that blasted error message would popup and cover the output in the terminal window–now the formatter error was a problem! I searched around trying to find a solution–without any success, and finally I just unnistalled ElixirLS in vscode, quit vscode, relaunched vscode, and reinstalled ElixirLS in vscode, and now the error is gone. We’ll see if that remains the case.

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