Formatting files in hidden directories

[wincent]

Hi @JohnnyMorganz — Thanks for building StyLua!

Wanted to ask about formatting files in hidden directories. For example, I have a bunch of Lua in my dotfiles repo under a path like .config/nvim/, and StyLua skips right over it. This means that instead of writing:

stylua .

I have to write:

stylua $PATHS_TO_HIDDEN_DIRECTORIES...

So, I've put this in a script, that does this:

stylua \
  aspects/dotfiles/files/.hammerspoon \
  aspects/nvim/files/.config

But this isn't "future proof" in the sense that I will have to remember to update this any time I add more files in other locations, or I move these directories.

Do you think it would be possible to allow StyLua to traverse hidden directories? Or do you have an alternative? Not sure if it would be a switch, or if it should just traverse hidden directories by default (in which case users would be able to use .styluaignore to avoid entering hidden directories if they didn't want them traversed).

[JohnnyMorganz]

It's definitely possible, it just hasn't been an issue yet. I think the best way is to just make it a command line flag such as --allow-hidden.
Just needs changing here

StyLua/src/cli/main.rs

Line 265 in f5243a1

.hidden(true)

[wincent]

Something like:

• feat: add --allow-hidden option #563

might do the trick. Tested locally and works for me:

• Without --allow-hidden, stylua . does not visit hidden hierarchies:
  • --verbose shows Ignore(IgnoreMatch(Hidden)) for those entries.
• Without --allow-hidden, stylua some/path/to/a/.dot-directory still works, as before.
• With --allow-hidden, stylua . visits all the things.
• cargo test still works (although no automated tests added for this).