Improve indentation of lines

[rebornix]

Auto indent support for type, move lines and copy/paste

Type

Move Lines

Copy Paste

[borekb]

Is this universal across languages? Does that mean that VSCode will finally be able to re-indent? Related: #19847

Thanks for your work on this.

[rebornix]

@borekb first of all, languages need to define indentation rules, otherwise we don't know how to adjust the indentation. secondly embedded language may not work properly as the language service for embedded languages are not avail if you don't open the file marked as that particular language.

[vvs]

Please consider adding a keybinding to "auto-indent current line" behavior, similar to what other editors do, like in Atom, with the use of editor:auto-indent:
'.platform-win32 atom-text-editor': 'ctrl-i': 'editor:auto-indent'

, or like in Sublime:
{ "keys": ["f12"], "command": "reindent", "args": {"single_line": true} }

As far as I can tell, currently there is no way to auto-indent the current line.

[rebornix]

@vvs

auto-indent the current line

are you referring to run a command to adjust the indent of current line? If so add an optional argument to reindent all lines can be a solution.

[vvs]

@rebornix

Yes, please. Essentially, there should be a way to do 3 things via keyboard shortcuts:

• Indent the whole file (as far as I understand reindentAllLines does that currently)
• Indent the selection
• Indent the current line (when there is no selection)

[borekb]

Just tried the behavior in 1.14 in a JSON file, it seems that the internal engine for indentation is becoming great but I'm still missing the command(s) to re-indent just the current line or the selection as @vss said. Ctrl+I is actually the very command I have it mapped to :)

Actually, thinking about it some more, I very rarely re-indent the whole file and almost always care only about the current line or small chunk of code. So if it was up to me, I'd propose a change of behavior of editor.action.reindentlines (should be editor.action.reindentLines, see the upper-case L) to this:

• If there's no selection, re-indent the current line.
• If there's a selection, re-indent all the lines it is touching.

Full file re-indentation would be done by simply Ctrl+A and kbd(editor.action.reindentLines).

Thanks for your continuing work on this!