Document Ability to "auto" format (format-on-save)

[briceburg]

Is it possible to have the formatter (nixpkgs-fmt or language server) run automatically on file save? Is the documentation for it in the README?

[remus-selea]

The code formatting does not work by default for me either. Maybe I came with the wrong expectations, but the description mentions "Adds nix language support for VSCode Editor."

I expected this to do the following:

• add code highlighting for .nix files
• add formatting on save

Instead, whenever I make a change to a file I get some errors:

What platforms are supported? This issue is on Windows.

[dudeofawesome]

You're probably looking for the following VS Code settings:

"editor.formatOnSave": true,
"editor.formatOnType": true,
"editor.formatOnPaste": true,

[szethh]

Instead, whenever I make a change to a file I get some errors:

same here, the formatting does not seem to work (macOS)