Configuring vscode formatter in ojs cells with Quarto

[boshek]

Description

Has any worked out how to get vscode formatting tools to work with Quarto and ojs chunks? For example if I have the following in my settings:

    "[javascript]":  {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
	},

I can format this javascript code if it is in a javascript file:

If I try to add a formatter to quarto like so:

    "[quarto]":  {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
	},

I get the following error message when I try to format the same code but within an ojs chunk with a qmd:

If I click "Configure..." and then choose quarto as the default it automatically changes the setting to:

    "[quarto]":  {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "quarto.quarto"
	},

and the code in the ojs chunk isn't formatted nicely. Has anyone else encountered this for ojs chunks? Formatting code this way works out of the box for python and R (at least for general formatting) but I am having trouble making it work for ojs chunks. Just posting in case anyone has encounted this before.

[mcanouil]

Quarto relies on specific language extensions to format code.
Unfortunately, I do not know the internals of the Quarto extension for VSCode (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto).

@jjallaire might be the best to answer here.

[zmaril]

This is frustrating for me as well, I wish it would work better.

[boshek]

I've realized that for, the actual tricky part of this is that I don't know how to lint a quarto doc now.

[zmaril]

Me either, mine are turning into a mess right now.

[mcanouil]

The issue is not Quarto.

Python/JavaScript/etc. linters don't lint markdown code blocks.
Only R linter parses markdown for R code blocks.

[boshek]

Totally agree that this no fault of Quarto's. But I also think it is a problem worthy of discussion.

[boshek]

Just found this at least for python: https://github.com/shafayetShafee/black-formatter