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support the ability to configure the formatting line length from within the file
This is a feature request to support the ability to configure the formatting line length from within the target file.
The use case here is that I have a project that's generating very large dart source files; they're generated from wasm files and replicate the operations specified in those files. Roughly, each generated source line corresponds to a wasm instruction. This works well (is readable) except in cases where there's significant nested control flow. In those cases, the indent pushes the contents past the 80-char boundary, and the generated operations start re-flowing into new lines (generally not doing good things for the readability).
To address this I'm experimenting with formatting the files - as the last step of codegen - with a longer line length; ~100 - ~120 chars. That generally works even for the most nested files. However, there are two issues:
- if somebody ever goes into that file and hits save in an editor, the file will be re-formatted using a different line length
- if people use
dart format --output=none --set-exit-if-changed
as part of a CI, it'll fail on these files
The feature request is for a way to configure the line length that a file should be formatted at from within the file itself. So, something like:
// Generated from foo/bar/...
// @format.length=120
...