VS Text Edtior question

[cheer8923]

I am not sure if this is the right place. If not, please let me know where to put it.

I am new to VS. Is there any way to disable the re-formating on pasted text? VS formatting is not ideal and I want it to be disabled.

Thanks!

 

[xwb]

Which VS are you using - lots of flavours and they keep their editor stuff in different places.

One thing you could do is to switch off smart indentation in the C++ editor. The location of the switch is different for VC6 and VC200x.

 

[cheer8923]

VS 2005

 

[cpjust]

What is Visual Studio doing that you don't like?
For C++ code, VS seems to indent everything perfectly for me.

 

[xwb]

Try Tools/Options/Text Editor
Then you have a choice of

General
All languages/Tabs - indentation is done here
C/C++/Tabs - indentation is also done here

If you select Indenting/none, then it will paste as-is. If it is set to smart, the layout will be changed.

I've found it never does procedure parameters the way I like it. In fact, it is totally inconsistent. But then again, everyone is different. Some people actually like the totally inconsistent indentation scheme.

 

[cheer8923]

Our coding convention is the following:

void foo()
{
if (true)
{
bar(arg1, arg2,
arg3, arg4);
}
}

With indent brace set, VS will do

void foo()
{
if (true)
{
bar(arg1, arg2,
arg3, arg4);
}
}

I had to format things manually. When I copy and paste, I do NOT want it to automatically reformat.

I don't see the option to turn that off. Anyone?

 

[xwb]

Instead of reindenting, try this

Tools->Options
Text Exitor->C/C++->Formatting
Tick Indent Braces

Close it, then Ctrl-A, Ctrl K, Ctrl F or, if you have VS6 controls, Ctrl-A, Alt-F8.

 

[cheer8923]

That's what I have. However, I do NOT want re-format the pasted code.

 

[xwb]

In that case

Tools->Options
Text Editor->C/C++->Tabs->Indenting->None

 

[cheer8923]

Block seems to work better (newline is auto-indented).

Thanks!