From 83afc46828eaf748a6b4afbe4412a9aea1b72477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: spatten Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:59:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] clarify what setting haskell.plugin.fourmolu.config.external to true does --- docs/contributing/HACKING.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/contributing/HACKING.md b/docs/contributing/HACKING.md index b1be84a586..0349969c25 100644 --- a/docs/contributing/HACKING.md +++ b/docs/contributing/HACKING.md @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ If you installed HLS in the old, complicated way, you can safely remove it. HLS You should also set the `FOSSA_SKIP_EMBED_FILE_IN_HLS` environment variable for HLS. This prevents HLS from embedding binaries, which helps to avoid a giant memory footprint for HLS. -You can also tell the Fourmolu plugin to use an external config. This ensures that it picks up our `fourmolu.yaml` file. +You can also tell the Fourmolu plugin to use an external config. This will tell the language server to use an external executable that you've installed, which ensures that it picks up our `fourmolu.yaml` file. In VSCode, this is done by adding this to your `settings.json`: