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Add prototool format

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by tracing the existing clang-format integration and how formatter options are registered, then determine where prototool should be added for *.proto files. Done means the new formatter option is available and formats protobuf files through the plugin.

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Description

new formatter

clang-format is pretty limited in its formatting options of *.proto, prototool is much more complete

Describe the solution you'd like
Add the prototool (https://github.com/uber/prototool) formatter as an option

Describe alternatives you've considered
Have not tried any alternatives, I don't believe there is an alternative?

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Vim Script
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