mhartington/formatter.nvim

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1452 stars · 145 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A format runner plugin for Neovim written in Lua that executes external formatters asynchronously on buffers. It provides opt-in default formatter configurations per filetype, conditional formatting, and before/after hooks.

Use cases

• format code on save in neovim
• run stylua or prettier from neovim
• remove trailing whitespace across filetypes
• set up per-filetype formatter configurations
• asynchronous code formatting in neovim
• conditionally skip formatting for certain files

When to choose

• you use Neovim and want a Lua-native, configurable formatting runner
• you need fine-grained control over which formatters run per filetype
• you want asynchronous formatting with buffer locking to avoid race conditions

When to avoid

• you use plain Vim rather than Neovim
• you prefer an all-in-one LSP-based formatting setup with no external plugin
• you need an IDE with built-in formatting

Facets

plugin · maturity active

formatter developer-tools editor developer-tools text-editors editor-plugin cross-platform neovim code-formatting lua async

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