allow matching by file path

[adrian-gierakowski]

I am working in a monorepo in which different sub-projects use different formatters for the same file types

I would like to enable formatting on save but don't see how I could make formatting conditional on the files path using sublime selectors

could a new setting be added to enable this? Thanks!

[mitranim]

Hmm. My first question would be: what about anonymous buffers? They don't have paths (view.file_path() is None). They only have scope selectors.

[adrian-gierakowski]

Anonymous buffer could match only if given formatter didn’t have a path based condition, or if the condition matched an empty string

[mitranim]

Might be useful to get more details about your use case, such as directory structure, files involved, formatters used. We might come up with other solutions too.

[adrian-gierakowski]

I'm using dprint and prettier for js\ts files and other formatters for other languages.
One of the sub-dirs in the monorepo needs to be formatted with prettier.

I started using https://numtide.github.io/treefmt to dispatch do different formatters, however it needs a file path to be able to select the formatter to use.

So I would need sublime-fmt to provide full path of formatted file when running on save. If formatting a buffer without a path, a dummy file name (with extension) could be provided to let treefmt pick the formatter to use.

[lethosor]

I realize this is an old thread, but I stumbled across it while looking for something a bit similar.

So I would need sublime-fmt to provide full path of formatted file when running on save.

You can do this by passing $file to the formatter, either as an argument or env var. Other variables are supported too: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/build_systems.html#variables

Thanks for the link to treefmt - looks quite useful. That might actually solve my problem entirely, since I don't care about formatting anonymous buffers.

[lethosor]

treefmt didn't end up working out entirely for me, partly because it doesn't handle filenames without extensions well. Sublime tends to know the language of these files, so I've put together a small PR, #12, that would allow passing the Sublime-determined scope to formatter commands. In theory this could help format anonymous buffers too. Either way, it would take a bit of wrapping to plumb it through to treefmt.

treefmt has some pending work to support stdin-based formatters, which could make usage with sublime-fmt more straightforward: numtide/treefmt#573 (comment),