formatter does not the same as "terraform fmt"

The formatter of the HCL plugin which is called on save does not the same as “terraform fmt”.

Prerequisites

• Ensure you have latest version of plugin installed
• Search for possible issue duplicates

Installation details

• IDE version (Help->About->Copy to Clipboard) IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3.4 (Community Edition) Build #IC-173.4548.28, built on January 30, 2018 JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1024-b11 amd64 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o Windows 10 10.0
• intellij-hcl plugin version (Settings->Plugins) Version: 0.6.9.4
• Terraform version (terraform -v) 0.11.2

Terraform Configuration Files

# Copy-paste your Terraform configuration here - for large Terraform configs,
# please use a gist (https://gist.github.com) and share a link. 

Exception

Expected Behavior

What should have happened? If I do a terraform fmt on a file and afterwards press save in IntelliJ, nothing should happen (no re-formatting)

Actual Behavior

What actually happened? If I do a terraform fmt on a file and afterwards press save in IntelliJ, the HCL plugin removes whitespaces after the = in a variable assignment

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. write some tf file with variable assignments, e.g. ami = “${aws_ami.JenkinsAMI.id}”
2. run terraform fmt which adds whitespaces , e.g. ami        = “${aws_ami.JenkinsAMI.id}”
3. modify the file again to make it dirty and press save. The HCL formatter removes the whitespaces which where introduced by terraform fmt

[VladRassokhin]

Unfortunately it’s impossible to match terraform fmt inside IDE, as HCL formatter depends on content and sometimes behaves quite strange and differently. I could recommend setting up File Watcher which would run terraform fmt after save. Could you also please change sample, as I don’t see difference.

[VladRassokhin]

@cyberious AFAIR lining up = already works, just select on equals in Settings -> Editor -> Code Style -> Terraform Config -> Other -> Align properties Probably intention action should be added to navigate user to this setting.