change standard formatting for JS

[tobsn]

Is there a way to edit the lsp settings for js formatting? It's a bit too aggressive to me...
All I found is how to add a different formatter like prettier etc.

thanks!

[SomeoneToIgnore]

See general overview of Zed's formatter capabilities and the settings: #7951 (reply in thread)

Quick recap:

First, you have to understand what is a formatter setting in your settings set to.
If there's none, then the default value would be auto, which tries to format the buffer with prettier (if applicable to your current language which unfortunately is not mentioned in the question) or, otherwise, tries to format the buffer with the language server formatting.

Prettier is configured with "prettier" section with https://prettier.io/docs/en/configuration , each language server is configured differently and it's better to consult its docs.

[tobsn]

Oh.. that's too easy to understand at first ;)
So (or js) if you want to edit it you basically have to overwrite the default used "no settings" prettier settings via prettierrc - thats how?

[SomeoneToIgnore]

Sorry, the last sentence is a bit tricky to understand, but I would assume you have zero formatter-related settings in your settings.json and some language that is applicable to prettier formatting.

In that case, you have to add something like
"prettier": { "trailingComma": "es5", "tabWidth": 4, "semi": false, "singleQuote": true } into your settings, but use the config, relevant to your needs, taken from https://prettier.io/docs/en/configuration or plugins' docs.

You can also call debug: open language server logs command and select prettier instance instance there to see if it takes effect or not:

[tobsn]

oh I see, so technically I can also always read out the prettier default settings via the debug, just to see how its set up "right now"?

[SomeoneToIgnore]

Prettier settings are empty by default, except for two settings: tabWidth and printWidth, that Zed sets based on its config — nothing else will be visible in that debug section.

https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html may be helpful to understand what Prettier will use as defaults for empty settings.