vscode-extension: Provide an action to open the formatter settings file

[gorkem]

From @egamma on July 11, 2016 8:20

Copied from original issue: eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls#42

[houman-babai]

I wanted to open an enhancement-request to provide a configuration surface for the formatter. Currently I use eclipse, and I would like to move over to vs code. But I do need a way to format the code according to a formatting policy.

Is this ticket addressing the same problem?

[gorkem]

@houman-babai Yes, this is a request to use and edit eclipse formatting policies

[houman-babai]

Thanks @gorkem. This is a great tool, but unfortunately I cannot use it without the formatter. Over the next few month I'll see if I can learn to contribute to the project :-) In the meantime i would be grateful to know if there are any workarounds...

[concatime]

I would love to see it in future releases too!

[bowiegou]

Yes. please have this feature.

[Dangoo]

I'd vote for that too!
@gorkem any hints where one could find the configuration for formating-rule, might find some time to contribute…

[magnusart]

This is very annoying. We have a specialized eclipse formatting settings but when using visual code I muck that up and there is no documented way to change it. Is there any workaround?

[musiKk]

FWIW there is a maven plugin which uses the Eclipse formatter and can use any provided formatting configuration. A native solution would be better of course.