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Reformat Selection Support

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
developer-experience

Research direction

Start with plugin-gradle/IDE_HOOK.md, the IDE integration entry point mentioned in the issue, and determine how selected ranges would be represented and processed. The work is complete when the IDE plugin can reformat a text selection as well as a whole file, with the behavior documented and verified.

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Description

enhancement

Hello,

Does Spotless support reformatting a text range rather than the whole file? Thinking about creating a plugin for an IDE many IDEs support reformatting both the entire file and a text selection, so having that parity with a spotless plugin would be great.

Thanks!

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