Small but infuriating undesired auto-indentation in C++ source files

• VSCode Version: Code 1.15.1 (41abd21afdf7424c89319ee7cb0445cc6f376959, 2017-08-16T18:05:38.342Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.14393
• Extensions:

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
Bookmarks	ale	0.16.0
githistory	don	0.2.3
xml	Dot	1.9.2
cpptools	ms-	0.13.1

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Steps to Reproduce:

Here’s a small snippet, where ^ is the cursor position (not an actual character in the file!)

{
    if(x)
        foo();
}^

If I press ENTER, the closing bracket and the cursor are auto-indented:

{
    if(x)
        foo();
    }
    ^

This is a small but extremely distracting issue in code bases which don’t use brackets for single sub-statements.

Btw, “editor.autoIndent” is set to false

Reproduces without extensions: Yes/No - Yes

[DaanDeMeyer]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I’m also having an issue with indentation in C++ source files. I’m not using the VSCode C++ extension so I’m assuming this behaviour is coming from stock VSCode.

When writing a function definition, after writing the opening brace (vscode automatically inserts the closing brace) and pressing Enter, vscode indents the next line and closing brace way too far. I’ve not found a setting to disable this. Setting autoIndent to false does not change the behaviour.

Example:

Before:

void IQuicHttpStream::OnReadComplete(CompletionOnceCallback callback,
                                     int result) {<cursor-is-here>}

After pressing Enter:

void IQuicHttpStream::OnReadComplete(CompletionOnceCallback callback,
                                     int result) {
                                       <cursor-is-here>
                                     }

Desired:

void IQuicHttpStream::OnReadComplete(CompletionOnceCallback callback,
                                     int result) {
  <cursor-is-here>
}

[kkurkiewicz]

Please see also #164177.