Formatting Code

Code formatting is powered by JuliaFormatter.jl. Both the Format Document command (Ctrl-Shift-I) and Format Selection (Ctrl-K Ctrl-F) are supported.

The default formatting is fairly conservative and unintrusive, but you can customise it with a .JuliaFormatter.toml in your workspace. Check out the relevant documentation here. Note: unlike the standard search rules for JuliaFormatter.jl, VSCode will only check for .JuliaFormatter.toml files within the workspace.

Formatting helps to keep code readable by automatically aligning indentations and spaces.

The Julia formatter can automatically make this code:

f(x)=2x+3
print(f'( 2 ))

open("myfile.txt", "w") do io
	write(io, "Hello world!")
    end;

look like this:

f(x) = 2x + 3
print(f'(2))

open("myfile.txt", "w") do io
    write(io, "Hello world!")
end;

It's the very same code, though now it's much easier to read.

In order to format your code press shift + cmd|windows + p to bring up the command palette and search for Format Document