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Default formatter selection should write to project specific settings rather than global.

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#71,755 opened on Apr 5, 2019

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Description

The new Default formatter selection feature, while handy, is unusable for it's stated usecase.

From the updates page "Many of our users work on different projects and often different projects use different document formatters." Right now, the quick pick will write to the user settings.json, which means every project the particular user works on will share a formatter, and to use it for the usecase of different projects using different formatters you would have to manually move it to the project local .vscode/settings.json directory.

It should also do this for workspace specific settings.

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Tech stack
typescript
Domain
desktopdeveloper experience
Issue type
feature
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3
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half day
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stale
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clear
Prerequisites
Familiarity with VS Code settings systemBasic TypeScript knowledge
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
45
Research direction
Investigate how the default formatter selection quick pick writes to user settings.json. The goal is to modify it to write to workspace specific settings (e.g., .vscode/settings.json) instead. Look at the relevant code in the vscode repository, likely around the configuration handling in src/vs/platform/configuration or the formatter activation code. Consider the logic for detecting workspace scope and ensuring the setting is applied only to the current project. The issue has been open since 2019, so check if any related changes or discussions have occurred in linked PRs or comments.
Default formatter selection should write to project specific settings rather than global. · Microsoft/vscode#71755 | Good First Issue