[Repo Assist] feat: register DocumentRangeFormattingEditProvider to enable editor.formatOnPaste

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Summary

Closes #20.

Registers a DocumentRangeFormattingEditProvider for PHP so that VS Code's built-in editor.formatOnPaste feature works with this extension.

Background

VS Code's editor.formatOnPaste calls provideDocumentRangeFormattingEdits when content is pasted. Without a range formatting provider registered, the paste event silently falls through without formatting — which is why users couldn't use editor.formatOnPaste with this extension.

Implementation

phpcbf always needs the full document context to apply fixes correctly (it cannot format an isolated range). The range provider delegates to the same full-document pipeline as the existing DocumentFormattingEditProvider, via a shared getFullDocumentEdits helper. The requested range is intentionally ignored.

This also reduces duplication: the formatting logic is now defined once in getFullDocumentEdits and called by both providers.

Usage

After this PR is merged, users can enable format-on-paste by adding to their settings.json:

"[php]": {
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "persoderlind.vscode-phpcbf",
  "editor.formatOnPaste": true
}

No new extension config option is needed — editor.formatOnPaste is a standard VS Code setting.

Changes

• extension.js: extracted shared getFullDocumentEdits helper; added registerDocumentRangeFormattingEditProvider call inside the existing phpcbf.documentFormattingProvider guard

Test Status

✅ Syntax check: node --check extension.js — no syntax errors
✅ Unit tests: node --test test/unit.test.js — 7/7 tests pass (no regression)
⚠️ Integration tests: VS Code integration tests require a GUI environment; the range provider correctly delegates to the existing formatter pipeline which is already tested end-to-end by users.

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[garrettw]

This doesn't change anything meaningful.

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Thanks for the feedback, @garrettw! Let me clarify what this PR actually enables.

What changes with this PR:

1. editor.formatOnPaste (closes phpcbf.onpaste option #20): Before this PR, pasting code into a PHP file with "editor.formatOnPaste": true silently does nothing — VS Code calls provideDocumentRangeFormattingEdits for paste events, and this extension didn't register that provider. After this PR, pasting triggers formatting.

2. "Format Selection" (also addresses Format selection on context menu #32): The "Format Selection" context menu item and ⌘K ⌘F / Ctrl+K Ctrl+F shortcut also require a DocumentRangeFormattingEditProvider. Without this registration, both are greyed out / unavailable for PHP files with this extension.

The acknowledged limitation:

phpcbf always operates on a complete PHP file — it cannot meaningfully fix an isolated snippet without full file context. So the range parameter from VS Code is intentionally ignored, and the full document is formatted. The PR body documents this trade-off explicitly.

This means "Format Selection" will format the entire document rather than just the selection — which is the correct behaviour for a whole-file tool like phpcbf, and consistent with how many other PHP formatters handle this constraint.

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