Enabling disabled linting rules?

[lennartq]

Formatters have "If you want to only enable additional formatters and do not disable default ones, use --configure .enabled=True configuration parameter instead."

The same doesn't work for linting rules (ConfigurationError: Provided param 'enabled' for rule 'not-allowed-keyword' does not exist.) and I can't find where to enable disabled rules.

robocop list rules --filter DISABLED shows a bunch and they do seem to work with --select.

Anything I'm missing? Sleep and not-allowed-keyword.keywords=pause_execution have worked in some version but I lost them in some update, possibly 5 -> 6.

[bhirsz]

Good point. Currently to enable a rule you can only use select (which in turns enables only selected). You can also do --select ALL and ignore option. Since formatters allow to enable single rule, we could add this as an option.

[lennartq]

Thanks, I'll do the select ALL then ignore the unwanted. Looks like it works at least with --select ALL and a toml, but can I put the select ALL in the toml?

[bhirsz]

Yes, it should work. As per documentation example:

https://robocop.dev/stable/configuration/configuration_reference/#__tabbed_16_2

[lennartq]

Is there really a point in having not-allowed-keyword disabled by default? If the list of keywords is empty it can be enabled and give the same result. Or there could be some logic that enables a rule if it has configurations in the configure section.

[bhirsz]

Conversely is there reason to have to have it enabled even if it doesnt work without confoguration? Such features like auto enabling can be technically added but I always want to consider if it will not be confusing to the users or potentially complicate the code and configuration unnecessarily.

I have also linked proposal for adding extend select option. It may work as a good alternative for enabling additional rules.