Create formatter in Visual Studio Code

Question

When I try to auto indent my .ahk files, I get "There is no formatter for 'ahk'-files installed." How can I create a rudimentary formatter?

Answer 1

The approach is the same like for any other language/file specific extensions in vscode: you have to create an extension and register the providers for the features you want to support, e.g. references provider, symbol provider etc. In your case you have to implement a formatting provider, see here how I did it in my extension. In order use it in vscode you have to register it in your main extension file. That looks like:

context.subscriptions.push(languages.registerDocumentRangeFormattingEditProvider(ANTLR, new AntlrFormattingProvider(backend)));

I recommend reading up about how to create an extension for vscode before you actually start the formatting provider. Here's a good description of the first steps: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/your-first-extension

Answer 2

Sorry - at time of writing, this just doesn't exist for VS Code.

The closest you'd get is to keep an eye on the main autohotkey extension for VS Code here:

https://github.com/stef-levesque/vscode-autohotkey

It may be worth putting a request in on that github repository requesting formatting features be added to the extension.