findent.exe not callable on Windows 10.

[himcraft]

When I used the key shortcut Shift+Alt+F or clicked 'Format Document' from right-click menu, the extension prompted 'Installing findent.exe through pip with --user option'. After I selected 'install' option, nothing happens, the formatter is still not working.

The output from the terminal is

["INFO" - 00:23:51] Formatter located in: C:\\Users\\dude\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\bin\\findent.exe
["WARN" - 00:23:51] Formatter: findent.exe not detected in your system.
                                    Attempting to install now.

After choose 'install', the output gives

["INFO" - 00:23:56] pip install --user --upgrade findent.exe:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
["INFO" - 00:23:56] pip install was successful

I did install the findent using pip with or without --user option, and I changed the path in settings ending with or without .exe. But they did not help. I wonder where did I set wrong. Thanks.

---

The relating settings are

"fortran.fortls.path": "D:\\\\ProgramFiles\\\\python3_9\\\\Scripts\\\\fortls.exe",
"fortran.formatting.path": "C:\\\\Users\\\\1014h\\\\AppData\\\\Roaming\\\\Python\\\\bin\\\\findent.exe"

[gnikit]

I suspect your settings paths are wrong. You should probably use a single or double backslash instead of quadruple.

[himcraft]

Thanks for your timely response! The quadruple backslash is fine for fortls, as I initially set double backslash in settings and it was automatically translated to four backslashes in the JSON file.

However, after changing the number of backslashes to 2, the extension still could not find the findent.exe. Though I can copy the execution file to the source code folder to format manually in the command line as a temp solution.

[gnikit]

Oh, my bad, you should just change your fortran.formatting.path option to not include the findent.exe at the end

[himcraft]

Yeah it works! Thank you so much!