That makes sense, but it's a problem when the formatter makes a rather opinionated choice and doesn't allow one to configure it. The primary example I'm thinkin

That makes sense, but it's a problem when the formatter makes a rather opinionated choice and doesn't allow one to configure it. The primary example I'm thinking of in Elixir is comments for pipelines. For example, if I use the pipe example on Elixir's landing page and add comments to it (obviously a contrived example): "Elixir" # string to get frequencies for |> String.graphemes() # Get all graphemes (i.e., character units) |> Enum.frequencies() # Get the number of occurrences of each grapheme This gets formatted by the Elixir formatter to: # string to get frequencies for "Elixir" # Get all graphemes (i.e., character units) |> String.graphemes() # Get the number of occurrences of each grapheme |> Enum.frequencies() This is a rather strongly opinionated format stance, and as far as I know, it's not configurable.