Feature: table formating

[godalming123]

I think that being able to format a markdown table would be very nice.

So this:

| Column A | Column B       |
| -   - |   - |
| a      | A                                                      |
| b             | B |
| c  |      C |

Would become this:

| Column A | Column B  |
| -------- | --------- |
| a        | A         |
| b        | B         |
| c        | C         |

[Feel-ix-343]

This could be interesting. I feel that I have read about LSP formatting, so I wonder if this can be done through the LS protocol.

Otherwise, it could be done in #95 (which I envision will have the goal of turning neovim into a true outliner like Logseq), or I am sure users could use another formatting plugin that we could suggest.

[godalming123]

Yeah, I've been using the dprint formater to do this with the following set of setup instructions:

How to install the dprint formatter for markdown

Note: This setup needs my helix dotfiles to configure helix to use the dprint command to format files.

1. Install dprint:

   curl -fsSL https://dprint.dev/install.sh | sh

2. Add an alias for dprint by adding the following line to ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

   alias dprint "~/.dprint/bin/dprint --config ~/.dprint/dprint.json"

3. Setup dprint config

   dprint init -c ~/.dprint/dprint.json

Although the language server protocol defianately also has this feature, and it would noticably simplify my setup to not configure dprint.

[Feel-ix-343]

Neat, so we could just use dprint, no?

[godalming123]

Neat, so we could just use dprint, no?

You could, but I don't know what it would look like to integrate dprint without needing any extra setup for the user of markdown-oxide. Dprint also supports other languages so that might make things more conplex.

[EphemeralDev]

I use deno to format markdown which i believe uses dprint under the hood. Might be able to use it as a reference.

[Feel-ix-343]

I think this might be done better on the client side. Closing for now.