rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
RustAnalzyer as rust formatter in vscode
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
A-ide
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 16.9k
- Forks
- 2.2k
- Avg merge
- 1d 12h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 72
Description
Reproduce step
- open vs code
- copy and paste to new file (ctrl+n)
- make sure that selected language is rust in right bottom.
- run format (alt+shift+t)
Expected result
- format with rustfmt by rust-analzyer extension
Actual result

vscode doesn't think rust-analzyer is rust formatter.
The previous, deprecated Rust extension supported this formatting. So I hope rust analzyer do this too.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the formatting flow in VS Code with Rust selected and review the rust-analyzer VS Code extension's formatter registration. Done means VS Code recognizes rust-analyzer as a Rust formatter and the format command uses rustfmt, matching the expected result.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100