How to pass flags to a formatter

[iammohitsakhuja]

I would just like to know how to pass flags to a formatter, particularly I'm asking for Autopep8. I usually format the code with --aggressive option but I can't seem to be able to do that using this. I read the documentation in the vroom/ and doc/ directories but I couldn't find a way on how to do this. I understand if this is a noobie question - which it is, since I am new to Vim and Vimscript. So any help would be appreciated.

[dbarnett]

Can that option be enabled in autopep8's .pycodestyle file?
https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8/blob/master/README.rst#configuration

[nfischer]

Just hit this as well. I'd like to use js-beautify -s 2 (2-space indent instead of 4). I wound up using a similar workaround with .jsbeautifyrc.

I agree in principle this is better configured per-project in a config file, although my specific case is to send a one-off fix (I'm not committing the config file since my team doesn't regularly use this tool). Perhaps we could put a warning in the README, explaining multi-arg commands (including CLI switches) aren't supported, and users should consider config files for their formatters?

[dbarnett]

I think #66 covers this and we can mark this one a dupe.

We have some more discussion on it there. Local config files are definitely a better option where available.