# Formatting processing in VS Code with Red Hat

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/formatting-processing-in-vs-code-with-red-hat/31276>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [July 16, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/formatting-processing-in-vs-code-with-red-hat/31276 "2021-07-16T02:20:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![DonaldZhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DonaldZhu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/DonaldZhu)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/formatting-processing-in-vs-code-with-red-hat/31276/1 "2021-07-16T02:20:36Z")

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Hi, I have recently tried using VS Code for processing, but realized there’s no proper formatter for the language. In [this issue](https://github.com/TobiahZ/processing-vscode/issues/53) in TobiahZ’s processing extension, he mentioned that one could use the Red Hat Java extension for formatting. How can I use Red Hat as the default formatter for .pde? Adding ` "[pde]": {"editor.defaultFormatter": "redhat.java"}` to the VS Code setting file doesn’t work.