Elm-format: Which build support 2 space indentation?

[conradwt]

Which build of elm-format support 2 space indentation instead of 4 spaces? At this time, I have installed elm-format-0.17-0.3.1-alpha-mac-x64.

[avh4]

Sorry, elm-format does not support 2-space indentation.

[Dremora]

Is there any reason for choosing 4 spaces instead of 2? It seems a big chunk of the code online, as well as most examples on elm-lang.org, are using 2 spaces. Now, I do like the idea of having consistent style throughout the language, but some code becomes simply unreadable. A simple pattern matching within a let expression will be moved by 16 spaces. Compare:

myFunction =
  let
    foo bar =
      case bar of
        X -> ...

with

myFunction =
    let
        foo bar =
            case bar of
                X -> ...

If 4 spaces was a hard requirement and I could bend others, I would have rewritten the code as follows:

myFunction =
    let foo bar = case bar of
        X -> ...

but this would break a lot of sensible conventions actually mentioned in the official docs.

I'm using large font, small screen and low soft character limit (80 characters), so this feel particularly painful.

[avh4]

Discussion of the reasoning was at https://github.com/avh4/elm-format/issues/158 and various mailing list threads.

[elliotdickison]

Can this be a config option?

[benjick]

@elliotdickison If there is config options there's no reason to use elm-format. The example by @Dremora isn't even covering 1/10 of my screen

[Dremora]

@benjick: it wasn't about how much screen it covers, it's about readability.

[elliotdickison]

@benjick I did not notice that example, but TBH I think it's irrelevant. It's hard to make an argument that this comes down to anything more than personal preference. I like 2 spaces for aesthetic reasons, but it's fine by me if you want to use 4. I think elm-format is a great tool and I would love to configure it to fit my current workflow, but if the whole point is universal conformity then you're right, config doesn't make any sense.

[avh4]

Closing: (the original question has been answered)