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Description   unfold

Code style is something that's hotly debated since the beginning of time.

Tabs or spaces? 2-width or 4-width indentation?

Which is right? Doom doesn't care, but we will try and make it easy for you to format code within the safety of Emacs.

At present, the module wraps apheleia, which includes some more detail on the internals of the package; but the long and short of it is on-save your code will be formatted and returned to the buffer using RCS patching.

Module flags

+onsave
Enable reformatting of a buffer when it is saved. See var:+format-on-save-disabled-modes to disable format on save for certain major modes.

Hacks

As of writing this, apheleia doesn't yet support regions or similar kinds of buffers, so there are a couple of hacks to attempt to rectify this.

For the most part, things should work as expected. However, because the formatting occurs on an isolated version of the buffer; lisp/scheme or similarly indentation-based languages may produce poor results.

TODO Changelog

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Installation

Enable this module in your doom! block.

This module has no direct requirements, but each language will need one of their supported formatter programs in order for this to work. In their absence, doom-package:apheleia will fail silently.

To see if a particular mode has a configured formatter, check for the mode in var:apheleia-mode-alist which corresponds to the list of formatters defined in var:apheleia-formatters

Usage

With +onsave

When this flag is enabled, you shouldn't need to do anything other than write code and save it.

Without +onsave

Without the flag, formatting will only occur when either +format/buffer or apheleia-format-buffer is called. The difference between them is +format/buffer will use a LSP server if configured and available.

Configuration

Detailed configuration can be found upstream, but for most purposes here we provide a simple macro that looks like the below:

(set-formatter! 'unique-name '("command" "line" "here") :modes '(name-of-major-mode))

If you're trying to override a formatter that has previously been defined by Doom, you will need to ensure that the call in your config is contained within an after! form, eg below to override Clojure's with zprint:

(after! clojure-mode
  (set-formatter! 'zprint '("zprint" "-") :modes '(clojure-mode)))

There are a few bonus symbols that apheleia uses (for example npx will be replaced by a correct path to npx) which are all documented in the link above.

Disabling formatters

Permanently

To permanently disable a particular formatter with no provided alternative

(setq apheleia-formatters (delq (assoc 'csharpier apheleia-formatters) apheleia-formatters))

Per-buffer

If you want to save without formatting, this is done by first passing the universal argument thus; SPC u SPC f s for evil users, C-u C-x C-s for non-evil users.

If you want to save more than a handful of time, you can set var:apheleia-inhibit to disable even if apheleia-global-mode is on.

Onsave only

This behaviour is controlled via var:+format-on-save-disabled-modes thus;

(setq +format-on-save-disabled-modes
      '(emacs-lisp-mode  ; elisp's mechanisms are good enough
        sql-mode         ; sqlformat is currently broken
        tex-mode         ; latexindent is broken
        latex-mode))

In this case, emacs-lisp-mode, sql-mode, tex-mode and latex-mode will not be formatted on save, but can still be formatted by manually invoking the commands +format/buffer or apheleia-format-buffer.

Disabling the LSP formatter

If you are in a buffer with lsp-mode enabled and a server that supports textDocument/formatting, it will be used instead of doom-package:apheleia's formatter.

  • To disable this behavior universally use: (setq +format-with-lsp nil)
  • To disable this behavior in one mode: (setq-hook! 'python-mode-hook +format-with-lsp nil)

Selecting a specific formatter for a particular buffer

Set the buffer-local variable +format-with to the name of the formatter to use. e.g.

;; Overrides `apheleia-mode-alist`
(setq-hook! 'python-mode-hook +format-with 'html-tidy)

;; Or set it to `nil' to fallback to `apheleia-mode-alist`
(setq-hook! 'python-mode-hook +format-with nil)

Formatters are referred to by the name they were defined with. They can be looked up in the apheleia-mode-alist hash table.

Troubleshooting

There are a few fail-safes apheleia has to prevent accidental code wipe, included silently failing if the command errors or doesn't exist.

Check that the command you've specified runs fine in a terminal first before reporting this as an issue.

If any errors are reported from the command, run apheleia-goto-error to jump to the error buffer and handle any problems raised there.

Any issues specific to apheleia should most often be reported upstream here.

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