vans163

vans163

Extending mix format rules?

A few things that annoy me with the opinionated formatter (when the line_length is exceeded) are

<<0,1,2,3,..>> Binary gets expanded to

<<
0,
1,
2,
3,
..
>>

Extra indent

values = [{0, "a"}, {1, "c"}, {2, "e"}]


value = values 
|> Enum.find_value(fn{key, letter}-> key == 1 && letter end)
|> String.upcase()
|> Base.encode64()

# Formatted

value = 
  values
  |> Enum.find_value(fn {key, letter} -> key == 1 && letter end)
  |> String.upcase()
  |> Base.encode64()

I feel without the extra indent its clearer to read if the function has more scopes.

and / or get placed at end of line

    Enum.filter(values, fn{k,v}->
      k == 5
      and k != 7
      and v != "a"
    end)


    Enum.filter(values, fn {k, v} ->
      k == 5 and
        k != 7 and
        v != "a"
    end)

Reading from left to right makes it take longer to comprehend. If you read right to left its natural tho.

If line gets expanded in a cond

  Enum.filter(values, fn {k, v} ->
      cond do
        k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 -> false
        k != 7 -> false
        v != "a" -> false
        true -> true
      end
    end)

    Enum.filter(values, fn {k, v} ->
      cond do
        k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 and k == 5 ->
          false

        k != 7 ->
          false

        v != "a" ->
          false

        true ->
          true
      end
    end)

Extra spaces even tho the lines are short, the results are placed on seperate lines.

Does anyone have any idea how to slightly tune the formatter? I know its meant to be opinionated and the official answer will be, if you dont like it dont use it.

First 4 of 4 Posts! Switch mode

lud

lud

Hi,

The formatter is not configurable besides the line length and the optional parentheses on some function calls.

gregvaughn

gregvaughn

I also dislike some of the things the formatter does, but I dislike the time and energy spent arguing about formatting even more, so I live with it.

10
Post #2
tensiondriven

tensiondriven

Note that you can write custom formatters as of 1.13: mix format — Mix v1.21.0-dev

vans163

vans163

Is this customizable enough though? Can it control things like not putting extra scope after = sign if pipe is used or remove extra space between case/cond clauses?

The binary being formatted with 1 char per line was fixed since I posted this so thats nice.

Where Next?

Trending in Questions Top

jonnycharles
I’m in search of an Elixir library that offers PDF generation capabilities similar to Ruby’s Prawn. While there have been discussions abo...
New
spammy
I’m looking to build a personal workflow to quickly deploy web applications written in elixir/phoenix, for local consumption (ie not on t...
New
silverdr
Using Phoenix.LiveView.TagEngine as an EEx.Engine is deprecated! To compile HEEx, use Phoenix.LiveView.TagEngine.compile/2 instead. Sta...
New
saveman71
Hello ! We want new/edit form pages to POST/PUT to their own URL rather than the resources REST defaults (post /things, put /things/:id)...
New
dli
Before I dive in myself, did anyone successfully sprinkle Hologram into their existing LiveView app? Looking for hints regarding: Addi...
New
bottlenecked
Hi all, I wanted to ask how the community is dealing with post-release steps. Today we have Ecto migrations, which make sure that the db...
New
michallepicki
I am using Oban and occasionally, shortly after a deployment, a handful of jobs can fail because of dependency on other parts of the syst...
New

Other Trending Topics Top

JesseHerrick
Hey, I’m Jesse and I’m the main contributor behind Dexter, a full-featured, lightning-fast Elixir LSP optimized for large codebases. It s...
New
jimsynz
Beam Bots (or just BB for short) is a framework for building fault-tolerant robotics applications in Elixir using familiar OTP patterns. ...
New
Damirados
Hello everyone. After busy few months I am happy to announce v0.1.0 of Emerge &amp; Solve. They are GUI (Emerge) and State management (S...
New
ausimian
Emily is an Elixir library that runs Nx computations on Apple’s MLX. Install it as the default Nx backend and Nx, defn, Axon, Nx.Serving,...
New
type1fool
I just stumbled on a newly redesigned elixir-lang.org. :tada: It looks like @Software_Mansion did the work, and I think it is generally a...
New
akoutmos
@hugobarauna and I (Alex Koutmos) have been hard at work on writing a book on Nerves that takes you from simply blinking LEDs to building...
New

We're in Beta

About us Mission Statement