[Feature Request] Accept stdin or files with different extensions

[jtrv]

Why?

• Case 1: I use a program to edit browser inputs with my text editor. It saves the active input as a .txt file and opens it in the editor, then fills the input with the text once the editor exits. I cannot use prettierd to format the text in these files. Prettierd returns "no files specified" when passed a .txt file.

• Case 2: There is currently no way for me to use prettierd to only format a certain selection of code as with kakoune's format-selection command. In it's current form prettierd only takes a file as input and output.

How?

• Option 1: Accept text from stdin using -f or --format to designate the format:

  cat file.txt | prettierd --format html -
  

• Option 2: Accept files with any extension using -f or --format to designate the format:

  prettierd --format html file.txt
  

Option 1 would be the most optimal since it would solve both of the above cases.

[fsouza]

I'm confused, prettierd only supports reading from stdin. It does not support reading the contents directly from a file. It takes the filename just to resolve configuration (including which parser to use). You don't need to give it a path to a file that actually exists. For example:

$ prettierd ${PWD}/index.html <<<"<h1>         hi</h1>"

Should work, regardless of whether index.html exists or not.

[jtrv]

Sorry it looks like I totally misinterpreted what was going on, I'll close out this issue.

[fsouza]

@JacobTravers no problem, feel free to reach out if you run into any other issues.