Hello! Sorry for the late reply.

Of course, will try to do this in the coming days.

Though I really recommend configuring keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking a button.

@ryantam626 Could you tell us how to bind a keyboard shortcut to format regular textfiles? The example settings don't work outside of notebooks. I assume that a certain selector must be set, but I can't find any documentation about those.

@slavistan

        {
            "args": {},
            "command": "jupyterlab_code_formatter:black",
            "keys": [
                "Ctrl K",
                "Ctrl M"
            ],
            "selector": ".jp-CodeMirrorEditor"
        },

should work.

I am not sure why jupyterlab_code_formatter:format doesn't work on textfiles just yet, hopefully this is good enough for you for now.

P.S.: Just in case you are not familiar with what "selector" means and web dev - "selector" here is CSS selector, and you can find how to target specific element inside jupyterlab with any devtools of mordern browser (e.g. Chrome DevTools), the button on the top left of Chrome DevTools is particularly useful. And also .jp-CodeMirrorEditor means any element with the jp-CodeMirrorEditor class.

@ryantam626 Thanks for your helpful reply. I'll run with the black formatter only for now.

Also, I've tried concatenating the isort and black commands manually (instead of using format) as described in the docs, but only isort is ever executed. May I kindly ask you to tell me if I've made a mistake? Or is this behavior part of the problem that causes format to not function as intended?

{
  "shortcuts": [
    {
      "command": "apputils:run-all-enabled",
      "args": {
        "commands": ["jupyterlab_code_formatter:black", "jupyterlab_code_formatter:isort"],
      },
      "keys": [
        "Ctrl K",
        "Ctrl M"
      ],
      "selector": ".jp-CodeMirrorEditor"
    }
  ]
}

Hello! Sorry for the late reply.

Of course, will try to do this in the coming days.

Though I really recommend configuring keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking a button.

Hi Ryan, I was wondering if you had time to look into this?
Thanks!