Readme isn't clear, how do I do a Command "beautify.format"?

[teckel12]

Also, how would one change the settings in beautify.options?

The menu options to do these things would be useful as without this knowledge, I can't use this extension.

[teckel12]

Lots of searching and experimentation (much of the issue is that there's two kinds of command prompts in Visual Studio Code, which makes doing a Google search for "Visual Studio Code command prompt" return all the wrong information. But, below are the instructions which you are missing:

1. Open document to format
2. On menu, select View -> Command Palette
3. Enter: beautify.format

With that said, I still can't get it working as I still can't figure out how to change the settings in beautify.options as there doesn't seem to be that file. Instead, it wants to make the changes in settings.json. While the indent_with_tabs option seems to work, I can't get other options to work at all. So maybe doing the settings in settings.json even works (as it doesn't match the limited instructions.

[anh65498]

So I followed your 3 steps too and my CSS file still hasn't been formatted. However, once I made a change to my CSS file and save the file, beautify.format atomically kicks in and format my CSS file. Hope this resolve it.

[headwinds]

thanks for the digging @teckel12 and tip @anh65498 - after following your steps, I also saw that from the command palette you can click the gear to give it a custom short cut - for me, format on save seems flaky - it doesn't also kick in.

During a code review, a colleague pointed out that I had used 4 instead of 2 spaces on a super long scss file - beautify saved the day!