Search parent directories for stylua.toml

[mirryi]

Currently, stylua.toml must be in the same directory that stylua is run from.

It would be useful to have it also search the parent directories for the configuration file if it's not found.

[JohnnyMorganz]

I'm a little hesitant about adding this as a feature. I normally expect stylua.toml to be in the root of a project/workspace, and I was expecting this was most likely the place where stylua would be run. If we were to search parent directories, then this essentially becomes a "global" configuration (e.g. if you put it in your home directory). The consequences of that, is that you may be applying some specific configuration for the project you are currently working on, and if someone else is to then work on it (e.g. cloning a public repo), they won't have the same configuration as you, as the stylua.toml isn't present in the repo. This can lead to conflicting formatting.
Also, if you have a stylua.toml in a ancestor directory, and you yourself clone a public repo which uses stylua, but with no configuration (i.e. no config file), then it would fall back to the stylua.toml file you have present, not the formatting that the project itself wants to enforce.

Do you have a specific use case in mind for this?

[tiagovla]

Would it be possible to make it look for both stylua.toml and .stylua.toml?

[JohnnyMorganz]

Would it be possible to make it look for both stylua.toml and .stylua.toml?

That should be possible, but it's a separate issue to this one. I'll create a new one for it