# How to disable automatic formatting options in vscode?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-formatting-options-in-vscode/75157
**Category:** VS Code
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [January 25, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-formatting-options-in-vscode/75157 "2022-01-25T06:30:27Z")
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### Author:  [@jishnub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jishnub)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-formatting-options-in-vscode/75157/1 "2022-01-25T06:30:28Z")
I’m referring especially to the indentation and the stripping of trailing semicolons, which I find a bit annoying tbh, but I wonder how to disable any of the automatic formatting settings in vscode? I have looked through the settings but couldn’t find anything obviously standing out.
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### Author:  [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-formatting-options-in-vscode/75157/2 "2022-01-25T08:20:56Z")
Does the [documentation](https://www.julia-vscode.org/docs/stable/userguide/formatter/) help answer that question?
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### Author:  [@tlienart](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tlienart)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-formatting-options-in-vscode/75157/3 "2022-12-14T16:56:43Z")
For others stumbling here who didn’t find this in the docs: if you want to fully disable auto formatting with VS Code:
- go to VS Code settings
- in the search bar type ‘_format_’
- under ‘_Text Editor_’, click ‘_Formatting_’
- untoggle ‘_Editor: Format on Save_’
hth
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### Author:  [@sidewayss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sidewayss)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-disable-automatic-formatting-options-in-vscode/75157/4 "2023-05-20T16:32:14Z")
I have _Editor: Format on Save_ turned off and VS Code still auto-indents for me. I have managed to turn off the relentless [auto-suggestions in Intellisense](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense#_customizing-intellisense), but turning off auto-indent and other formatting options still eludes me. Hard for me to believe that there are people who want more of this stuff in their code editors. It’s like walking through Times Square at night with constantly flashing lights.