Use the default config of auto-formatting tools

[msm-code]

Feature Category

• Correctness
• User Interface / User Experience
• Performance
• Other (please explain) - maintenance

Describe the problem

All of the projects in the family (mquery frontend, mquery backend, ursadb) make a heavy use of autoformatters (prettier, black, clang-format). This issue is about the first two.

• We use prettier with an unstandard --tab-width=4 option.
• We use black with unstandard line-length=79 configuration.

I'll take a hit on this one - if I remember correctly they were both my personal preference at the time (still is). But now I also see any bit of additional unstandard configuration as a liability and a hoop for new contributors to jump over.

Describe the solution you'd like

I propose to revert this configuration and use the defaults from now on.
We should also:

• reformat the repo with new configuration
• fix the documentation

Describe alternatives you've considered

The downside of reformatting everything is that we will lose some of the git blame magic. Alternative approach is to transparently rewrite git history - but I'm strongly against it, because this will completely devastate all the forks (for example, people that run mquery with one or two custom modifications).

We can also leave the formatter settings unchanged. This issue was created to discuss this problem and it's not decided if we're going to do this.

[msm-code]

@nazywam @psrok1 @KWMORALE @ITAYC0HEN what do you think?

[ITAYC0HEN]

I think reverting to default settings is a good idea. Indeed, it will ruin git history but not many people worked on mquery so far so it's not hard to find who to blame :)

I am against rewriting history as well

[nazywam]

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