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The official (but not yet stable) formatter for Nix code
Currently passing the argument `-` does not try to read the "file" from standard input. E.g.: ``` nixfmt - < flake.nix ``` This is a common standard as suggested per...
### Description Nixfmt (sometimes?) converts strings to double single quote form. For certain strings, the transformation is incorrect. No transformation at all would be preferrable. ### Small example input ```...
When I have a symlink and pass it to `nixfmt` (eg because of using globbing from the shell as in `nixfmt **/*.nix`) it gets overwritten by a regular file containing...
The file `default.nix` : ``` { hello = .9; } ``` gives: ``` $ nixfmt default.nix default.nix:2:13: | 2 | hello = .9; | ^ unexpected ';' expecting expression ```...
Consider this `default.nix` file: ```nix rec { first."hello/there" = 123; second = { inherit (first) "hello/there"; }; } ``` It is valid: ```sh $ nix-instantiate --eval default.nix -A second.hello/there 123...
### Description It'd be nice to have a way to disable formatting with a comment directive such as https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-fmt/issues/265. If this were added I'd probably switch from using `nixpkgs-fmt`. ###...
Still seems to work fine, and in fact it seems it's really a warning, but Nix shows it as an error so it looks more concerning than it probably is....
User report: > I set up treefmt for my editor and nixfmt fails formatting without any obvious sign. > Maybe the spec is incomplete, but I think it had to...
It'd be really great if I could hook up a GitHub Action with nixfmt so it provided annotations to the code about reformatting that needs doing.
