I am using PhpStorm and got it working with adding *.html.eex under the Editor > File Types > Twig. As it has a similar template language style, it works like a charm.

The formatter is registered for Elixir

not EEx, so I think if it works at all, it would format the Elixir inside the EEx tags.

I’m not sure how formatting a whole file works since the outer (HTML) needs to be formatted, then the template tags (EEx) and then the inner (Elixir). IntelliJ Ultimate Edition, WebStorm, PHPStorm, and Rubymine have HTML formatters I think, so they should format the HTML, but I don’t think HTML support is in IntelliJ Community Edition.

So, maybe I need to register a formatter for EEx too, but I’m not sure how that would work since you can put the tags wherever, like to interpolate an attribute or even seemly invalid, partial HTML and that formatting would be dependent on the outer language.

Which IDEs have you tried Auto-Indent Lines in?

Love the Elixir plugin so much, except for this. It’s driving me crazy that I can’t format HTML files, I’ve tried fiddling with all the options in IntelliJ and it seems to just completely ignore indenting for .html.eex files no matter what I do.

Thanks for the plugin though @KronicDeth

edit: just found the best work-around: rename the file to .html for a second, reformat it, rename it back to .html.eex

If anyone ever finds a better solution than the Twig file type, please please please tell me here. It’s still driving me crazy because now I basically have the option which language it’s properly formatting but not both…

I’m using it with Rubymine and if you add *.html.eex and set the template language to HTML, it formats both the HTML and Elixir as you can see below. This has been my pet peeve for a while but seems to be resolved with the latest update!

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