# Recipes - [Format command](#format-command) - [Autoformat with extra features](#autoformat-with-extra-features) - [Command to toggle format-on-save](#command-to-toggle-format-on-save) - [Automatically run slow formatters async](#automatically-run-slow-formatters-async) - [Lazy loading with lazy.nvim](#lazy-loading-with-lazynvim) ## Format command Define a command to run async formatting ```lua vim.api.nvim_create_user_command("Format", function(args) local range = nil if args.count ~= -1 then local end_line = vim.api.nvim_buf_get_lines(0, args.line2 - 1, args.line2, true)[1] range = { start = { args.line1, 0 }, ["end"] = { args.line2, end_line:len() }, } end require("conform").format({ async = true, lsp_format = "fallback", range = range }) end, { range = true }) ``` ## Autoformat with extra features If you want more complex logic than the basic `format_on_save` option allows, you can use a function instead. ```lua -- if format_on_save is a function, it will be called during BufWritePre require("conform").setup({ format_on_save = function(bufnr) -- Disable autoformat on certain filetypes local ignore_filetypes = { "sql", "java" } if vim.tbl_contains(ignore_filetypes, vim.bo[bufnr].filetype) then return end -- Disable with a global or buffer-local variable if vim.g.disable_autoformat or vim.b[bufnr].disable_autoformat then return end -- Disable autoformat for files in a certain path local bufname = vim.api.nvim_buf_get_name(bufnr) if bufname:match("/node_modules/") then return end -- ...additional logic... return { timeout_ms = 500, lsp_format = "fallback" } end, }) -- There is a similar affordance for format_after_save, which uses BufWritePost. -- This is good for formatters that are too slow to run synchronously. require("conform").setup({ format_after_save = function(bufnr) if vim.g.disable_autoformat or vim.b[bufnr].disable_autoformat then return end -- ...additional logic... return { lsp_format = "fallback" } end, }) ``` ## Command to toggle format-on-save Create user commands to quickly enable/disable autoformatting ```lua require("conform").setup({ format_on_save = function(bufnr) -- Disable with a global or buffer-local variable if vim.g.disable_autoformat or vim.b[bufnr].disable_autoformat then return end return { timeout_ms = 500, lsp_format = "fallback" } end, }) vim.api.nvim_create_user_command("FormatDisable", function(args) if args.bang then -- FormatDisable! will disable formatting just for this buffer vim.b.disable_autoformat = true else vim.g.disable_autoformat = true end end, { desc = "Disable autoformat-on-save", bang = true, }) vim.api.nvim_create_user_command("FormatEnable", function() vim.b.disable_autoformat = false vim.g.disable_autoformat = false end, { desc = "Re-enable autoformat-on-save", }) ``` ## Automatically run slow formatters async This snippet will automatically detect which formatters take too long to run synchronously and will run them async on save instead. ```lua local slow_format_filetypes = {} require("conform").setup({ format_on_save = function(bufnr) if slow_format_filetypes[vim.bo[bufnr].filetype] then return end local function on_format(err) if err and err:match("timeout$") then slow_format_filetypes[vim.bo[bufnr].filetype] = true end end return { timeout_ms = 200, lsp_format = "fallback" }, on_format end, format_after_save = function(bufnr) if not slow_format_filetypes[vim.bo[bufnr].filetype] then return end return { lsp_format = "fallback" } end, }) ``` ## Lazy loading with lazy.nvim Here is the recommended config for lazy-loading using lazy.nvim ```lua return { "stevearc/conform.nvim", event = { "BufWritePre" }, cmd = { "ConformInfo" }, keys = { { -- Customize or remove this keymap to your liking "f", function() require("conform").format({ async = true }) end, mode = "", desc = "Format buffer", }, }, -- This will provide type hinting with LuaLS ---@module "conform" ---@type conform.setupOpts opts = { -- Define your formatters formatters_by_ft = { lua = { "stylua" }, python = { "isort", "black" }, javascript = { "prettierd", "prettier", stop_after_first = true }, }, -- Set default options default_format_opts = { lsp_format = "fallback", }, -- Set up format-on-save format_on_save = { timeout_ms = 500 }, -- Customize formatters formatters = { shfmt = { prepend_args = { "-i", "2" }, }, }, }, init = function() -- If you want the formatexpr, here is the place to set it vim.o.formatexpr = "v:lua.require'conform'.formatexpr()" end, } ```