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    Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    A project I'm involved in has a style of inserting spaces for better visibility - like this:-

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    int SomeFunc ( int whatever );
    but if I make any change to an existing line, VS2019 has an annoying habit of correcting to what it thinks is the 'proper' style - i.e.

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    int SomeFunc(int whatever);
    Is there a setting somewhere that'll turn this off?
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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    Try looking at these VS configuration options:

    Tools/Options/Text Editor/c c++/Code Style/Formatting/Spacing/spacing for function parameters
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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    Quote Originally Posted by John E View Post
    VS2019 has an annoying habit of correcting to what it thinks is the 'proper' style
    Generally, I find VS 2019 a little too complex and invasive for my taste so I've contemplated switching to VS Code for quite some time.

    But now I see VS 2022 is on the brink of being released and I wouldn't want to miss that! There's a preview available already,

    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visua...now-available/

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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    Thanks 2kaud - I just seem to have 1 weird style thing renaming which I can't seem to track down - i.e. it's removing spaces if they're preceded by a comma. So something like this:-

    Code:
    void Hello (int i, bool b, unsigned u);
    will keep getting converted to this:-

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    void Hello (int i,bool b,unsigned u);
    Any idea what I'd need to change in order to disable that?
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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    Tools/Options/Text Editor/c c++/Code Style/Formatting/Spacing/spacing for delimiters

    Same config page as before - just further down. Has options for space before/after coma etc.
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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    Thanks 2kaud - interestingly, my options were all disabled here. So I've just toggled them on and then off again.
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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    You need the option 'insert space after comma' set. If that was disabled, that's why you had no space!
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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    Thanks 2kaud. I corrected that and I also discovered another setting at Tools/Options/Text Editor/C C++/Code Style/Formatting/When I paste. It was initially set to Indent and format

    But when I'm editing someone else’s code I tend to copy & paste it first (so that I can easily get back to the original code if I screw something up...) So it’s probably the copy & paste operation that’s been introducing a lot of the formatting problems here.
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    Re: Stopping unnecessary style corrections

    The code style formatting gives you enough options to hang yourself!
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