Feature - Only format modified text

[shivapoudel]

VSCode 1.49.0 comes with setting the only format modified text using the setting "editor.formatOnSaveMode": "modifications",. Do PHPCBF come with a setting to format only the modified area of the file?

[gsherwood]

Use can use the --filter=gitmodified CLI arg to only format files that have modifications, but there is no feature to format just the lines that have been modified. This often doesn't make sense for the sniffs as they may generate errors on lines that have not changed, but the errors are caused by changes that were made elsewhere in the file.

[shivapoudel]

I was talking about to adapt this VSCode feature https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_49#_only-format-modified-text in its PHPCS extension valeryan/vscode-phpsab#31

Thanks @gsherwood

[valeryan]

My vscode extension does not have any association with phpcs beyond utilizing it. I assume this issue would be better handled on my extension. @gsherwood I would close this...

[gsherwood]

Good discussion, but closing as this is not something that is going to be handled at the PHPCS level.