Format doesn't find .lua-format files unless config setting points to one

[Nexela]

The program will attempt to automatically use the current directory's .lua-format file if no config file is passed in the command line. If none is found, it will try to locate a .lua-format file in a parent directory recursively.

Using the format extension this does not seem to be the case. I believe the fault lies in either not passing the file path or cwd in spawn options

Correctly passing the cwd should allow it to pick the correct .lua-format file without having to add the setting.

[fafaraway]

I have same question, any solution?

[aMoniker]

I ran into this issue as well, and submitted a PR that should fix it: https://github.com/Koihik/vscode-lua-format/pull/31

[kghost]

Unfortunately, it only works if .lua-format is in the same directory as lua files. It doesn't work when .lua-format is put in the root of a project, and lua files are spitted into multiple directories.

Maybe it is because that bin\...\lua-format is just too old.

[ayoubfaouzi]

For me it looks like there was a problem with the config file I supplied. I took it from the README file in github: https://github.com/Koihik/LuaFormatter

But if I use the binary which was installed with the vscode extension and run it using: lua-formater.exe --dump--config, there was a small different between the two:

column_table_limit: column_limit (the one in doc) column_table_limit: 80 (the one I dumped)

basically replacing that column_limit with your favorite number made it work for me.

Cheers.