There is no standard lua formatter

[Alloyed]

:thinking:

I'm not willing to write my own but it's interesting that it doesn't exist to begin with prior art: https://github.com/trixnz/lua-fmt written by the vscode server author https://github.com/trixnz/vscode-lua

[ryanplusplus]

Most formatters I've encountered have used the Metalua-based formatter:

• Eclipse LDT (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.ldt)
• atom-format-lua for Atom (https://github.com/mingjunyang/atom-format-lua)
• FormatLua for SublimeText (https://github.com/denglf/FormatLua)

I've never found the upstream source for this formatter, but I haven't searched a whole lot. As far as I can tell the source is just copy-pasted around.

Although widely used, this formatter does choke on Lua 5.3's new bitwise operators because it's based on Lua 5.1.

[Alloyed]

Thanks, the parser I'm using implements a subset of metalua so I can probably just retrofit this onto its output.

the EPL suggest that it started in eclipse, and it even includes a CLI interface (!) I might leave that in there so if somebody just wants a standalone formatter they can install my package and call it from there

[ryanplusplus]

:+1:

[shuxiao9058]

https://github.com/Koihik/LuaFormatter

[Alloyed]

https://github.com/trixnz/lua-fmt

[lblasc]

https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/StyLua