Can we please disable format on save by default?

[panstromek]

One of my first experiences with Zed was trying to revert all the edits I accidentaly commited because I didn't know the editor made these changes on save without any warning (and mostly out of viewport). It added semicolons on a ton of places and I had to manually go through it to revert each one separately. This was pretty frustrating.

Generally, I really don't like when editors do this, I have my own formatting choices and I don't want the editor to do something with it unless I tell it to. I suspect I'm not alone in this, I'd be glad if editing actions were opt-in, especially if they are opinionated, like formatting.

[altaic]

I just ran into this yesterday and it was quite frustrating. You might file a bug report since discussions don't seem to get much attention.

[ClanEver]

Try this

settings.json

{
    "format_on_save": "off"
}

[panstromek]

I know how to turn it off. That's not the problem.

[wlinna]

Format on save being "on" by default is in my opinion the worst part of Zed — it is far too invasive default for a text editor.

I tested it on a TypeScript file, and without me noticing, it changed all the single-quotes to double-quotes, replaced commas with semicolons in interfaces, added whitespace changes here and there. Most of the file has been changed

And it's not like I can simply revert all this now, because these modifications are mixed with my own changes.

[MrSubidubi]

As of version 0.200.0 we have updated our onboarding flow for new users which you can open with the zed: open onboarding action. On the editing page we will prompt new users whether they want to have Format on Save enabled:

It will be still enabled by default, but it should be much more visible that this is the case.

[livilivi]

and "ensure_final_newline_on_save" "remove_trailing_whitespace_on_save" #24743

God knows what “features” I'll have to turn off before some file gets unexpectedly changed in next update.
Seems they assume zed should only be used with fresh new project.

[cyt-666]

I have already set format_on_save to off, but it was useless. So I go back to vscode.