Disable built-in formatting for zig about neovim

[zeertzjq]

It seems that this only documented in the README of https://github.com/ziglang/zig.vim

[flexagoon]

@zeertzjq it is absolutely not clear that you have to look in a readme of some third-party repo for a solution to the issue. If this behavior is to be kept, it should at least be added as a :h file. Though I still think that it should not be on by default.

[zeertzjq]

There seems to be some ongoing effort:

• vim/vim#13803
• ziglang/zig.vim#51

But it's not clear where it is going.

[flexagoon]

@zeertzjq the ziglang/zig.vim#51 issue was closed due to not enough interest, but since then, many people have commented on it saying that this behavior is annoying. I think even if this change won't be made in upstream zig.vim, it should be made in Neovim to have better defaults.

[i3ima]

I also stumbled upon this behavior and I support opinion that this should not be on by default. In fact if you’ll look at zig_fmt_autosave in other Vim/Neovim distributions, dotfiles and so on — you’ll see that everybody is aware of this thing

[clason]

We do not maintain these files; please contact the maintainer listed at the top of the file and propose the change; if there is no response, you may raise an issue at vim/vim directly. If they make the change, we will port it; otherwise not.

[flexagoon]

@clason why can't nvim change ftplugins independently of vim? Is that for compatibility reasons?

[clason]

Yes (and to make sure that any improvements benefit both projects). This is an ironclad project policy.

[gpanders]

I've opened a PR with Vim to change the default vim/vim#14820.

[flexagoon]

@gpanders perhaps you could continue the work in the existing PR?

vim/vim#13803

It is a full refactor of the zig ftplugin, so I think it'd be better to merge that, seems like the only thing it misses is documentation for one variable.

[flexagoon]

@clason vim merged the PR with the fix. Will it be downstreamed into nvim automatically?