Various nitpicks

[lennartq]

Formatter:

AlignSettingsSection - Long comments affect first column. IMO comments shouldn't matter

AlignTemplatedTestCases - [Tags] and [Template] affect columns. IMO shouldn't matter

IndentNestedKeywords - End of line comments are moved to before all lines

NormalizeSeparators.skip_sections=settings,variables

• Test Tags setting seems to have extra whitespace trimmed when no other tags are touched

RenameKeywords - Set Yleis/erityisvakuus - linter complains, formatter doesn't fix. Same with :.
Workaround "wrong-case-in-keyword-name.pattern=[:/][a-zåäö]", - oddly didn't work with re.compile. Error in docs?

ReplaceWithVAR - Makes multi-line Catenate or Create List into too long lines
and this

        ${invalid_number}    Set Variable If
        ...    any('None' in str(result[0]) for result in ${query_result})    ${True}    ${False}

became

        IF    any('None' in str(result[0]) for result in ${query_result})
            VAR    ${invalid_number}    ${True}
        ELSE
            VAR    ${invalid_number}    ${False}
        END

Links from linter docs to formatting rules would be nice. "Can I fix this automatically?" comes up often.

[bhirsz]

Thanks for all the comments, its helpfull - I will go over them and think about it.

As for linking linter and formatter, I am planning to increase integration between the two. For example I want to have fix option added to some rules, migrate some formatters to linter (like deprecated code etc) . So its definietely on the roadmap. Currently I am doing heavy reworks related to documentation and performance, but its 'next big thing' in the schedule. Of course it will take same time..

[lennartq]

Thank you. I'm doing agentic coding in our existing codebase and formatting + linting is a must, as current models have no clue on how to write Robot code. I'd love an MCP that runs linting + formatting and returns instructions on how to fix issues format doesn't handle, but I guess I can write it myself :)

[bhirsz]

Can you provide some example for: Test Tags setting seems to have extra whitespace trimmed when no other tags are touched ?

Also, when 'ReplaceWithVAR - Makes multi-line Catenate or Create List into too long lines' happens, does SplitTooLongLine split it into multiple lines later on? Ideally each formatter should already provide good enough code, but I just want to ensure if it's covered by split formatter.

[bhirsz]

Also, what's wrong with the last example? Where Set Variable If is replaced by IF and VAR statements. It's overly verbose and maybe not ideal, but I don't see incorrect syntax (on first glance).

[lennartq]

Ah, I just realized the last example can't be changed to an inline if with assignment since the values don't come from keywords. No incorrect syntax, just thought ${myVar} Set Variable If would become ${myVar} IF.

I'll see if I can reproduce the things with the Test Tags setting and ReplaceWithVAR.

[lennartq]

ReplaceWithVAR seems to split into lines properly now. I also can't reproduce the Test Tags thing (that may have been related to being the last line in the section), so I think that's fixed as well.