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Allow customization of code formatting rules

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell

Research direction

Start in src/PowerShellEditorServices.Protocol/Server/LanguageServerSettings.cs at the formatting-rule list around line 209. Trace how that list is used by the Format Document and Format Selection actions, then determine how custom PSScriptAnalyzer rules should be supplied and included in both paths. Done means users can extend the formatting rules and their custom rule runs through those editor actions.

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Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement

In this block of code: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices/blob/master/src/PowerShellEditorServices.Protocol/Server/LanguageServerSettings.cs#L209

The list of PSScriptAnalyzer rules used to perform the Formatting function is hard-coded. It would be nice to have a way of extending this list to include custom rules. For example, I have one that removes any trailing whitespace from lines, but it doesn't run if I use VSCode's "Format Document" or "Format Selection" actions.

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