[formatter] Comment to let formatter ignore contents

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No files, tests, or formatter entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating the PSScriptAnalyzer formatter implementation and its handling of comments, then inspect existing formatter tests. Done means supporting the proposed range markers and the single comment that ignores all following lines without formatting the enclosed code.

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Description

Area - Formatter

Summary of the new feature

A common feature of formatter is to ignore formatting for rest of lines/range of lines with special comments.
I propose this feature because formatting rules in pssa are rather bold, you can't get a finer control on the style, so ignoring certain part can save my code from being messed up.

# ignore a range of lines

# pssa: ignore format start
echo foo
echo bar
# pssa: ignore format end

# ignore the rest of lines

# pssa: ignore format
echo foo

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

What is the latest version of PSScriptAnalyzer at the point of writing

I don't know, I use powershell-editor-services

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