Thats smart. I think I'll try making an alfred workflow to transform it in
my clipboard
On Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 10:06:46 AM UTC-6 william.l...@cargosense.com
wrote:
> I encounter this often. Here's a small workaround I use.
>
> I copy/paste the struct into a new VSCode tab and do the following
> find/replace
>
> Search: `.+#.+\n`
> Replace: `` (aka nothing)
>
> Then you can format. E.g. this turns:
>
> ```
> %User{
> __meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:loaded, "users">,
> id: 123,
> primary_contact_id: 456,
> primary_contact: #Ecto.Association.NotLoaded<association :primary_contact
> is not loaded>,
> name: "Name",
> created_at: ~U[2023-03-27 20:27:27.756360Z]
> }
> ```
>
> into
>
> ```
> %User{
> id: 123,
> primary_contact_id: 456,
> name: "Name",
> created_at: ~U[2023-03-27 20:27:27.756360Z]
> }
> ```
>
> This doesn't really address your concern, but I do it so frequently that I
> figured I'd share.
>
> On Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 11:51:54 AM UTC-4 José Valim wrote:
>
>> There is a "structs: false" option but I am not sure if that is supported
>> when diffing.
>>
>> But also keep in mind there are structures that represent memory data
>> (such as PIDs and REFs) and those can never really be copy and pasted. And
>> sometimes, like above, it shows in a special style because it is private
>> and you are not supposed to assert on it (i.e. you should remove it).
>>
>> On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 5:42 PM Adam Kirk <atom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I do this ALL the time, but heres a specific example: When I write a
>>> test, I do something like
>>>
>>> assert [] = Repo.all(Thing)
>>>
>>> it fails, I copy what the match shows into my test and modify it to what
>>> I need.
>>>
>>> except that it outputs stuff like:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> __meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:loaded, "thing">
>>> ```
>>> which isn't valid elixir, so I can't run mix format to make it nice
>>> before I modify it.
>>>
>>> This applies to a ton of workflows I have. I'm curious why it can't be
>>> output as valid elixir instead of this special formatting with special
>>> characters like `#` etc
>>>
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