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by 1718627440 256 days ago
I do care about my whitespace and it does have meaning. Throwing it all away on safe sounds annoying.
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Sure, but it sounds like you have a problem with prettier/white space auto-formatters in general? My comment was assuming you want an auto-formatter, and I gave the reasons for why you’d want it to apply on save vs format-on-commit or w/e.
I care about my vertical white space (eg: grouping some things together gives me some logical separation).

I don't care about horizontal white space. That should just properly get indented and spaced into a consistent block format.

Fine, I do. Also most tools don't get the difference between indenting and aligning and mess that up.