Autoformating notes

[hyde-stevenson]

Hello,

Thanks for this great tool, but I have a small issue.

I use Neovim, and Zettelkasten. My note template is basically like this:

# 10.1b Title

Content

---
source:
author:
date:
tags: #one #two 
see:
[[link to 10.1 note]]

Every time I save the file, it becomes :

---------------------------------------------
source: X author: XX date: 20260121 tags etc ...

Everything is joined on one line only.

I turned off the setting auto_format_on_save = false,but still it continues to do it.

Any idea?

NVIM v0.11.5
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1741730670

[hyde-stevenson]

It reformats also long lines. My lines are 80 columns width, and now they are reformated to remove that.

I'm wondering why the auto_format_on_save to false doesnt work...

[gimalay]

Hi @hyde-stevenson,

IWE core is build in a way that it works with Markdown elements, not the text. It cannot make any transformations in the text without re-formatting it afterwards.

In Markdown there is no such element as a soft line break. Any two paragraphs (text lines) without an empty line between them considered same paragraph and formatted accordingly.

IWE supports standard frontmatter (data block with three dashes), but it needs to be in the beginning of the file.

[gimalay]

There is a similar discussion here: #175

[hyde-stevenson]

Hey @gimalay,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I found out about frontmatter, and its three dashes. I tried to add links there, and then use gd (go to definition) but it's not working. Outside of the frontmatter no issue.

Did I understand correctly that auto_format_on_save to false was supposed to remove the formatting right?
I'm still not sure why it's not working.

[gimalay]

1. The frontmatter content is not parsed at the moment. We can consider adding this functionality.

2. You are correct,auto_format_on_save = false should disable auto formatting on save.