VS does not respect my settings

[TheBean]

Im using VS Enterprise 2019 and this is really bothering me. No matter what I do, VS does not use tabs for indentation and keeps using 2 spaces. I cant even get it to change to 4 spaces. ive tried everything but nothing works. Is there an extension or something I can do to force this to happen?

 

I dont like 2 spaces at all.. wayy too cramped

[AnonymousGuy]

Tools->Options->Text Editor->All Languages->Tabs
 

It's in VS 2019 for me.  Although maybe the specific language you're using is overriting the All Languages setting.

Or if you're working on legacy code Intellisense could see that it has spaces for indentation and it's overwriting all the tab/space program settings. 

[TheBean]

2 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Tools->Options->Text Editor->All Languages->Tabs
 

It's in VS 2019 for me.  Although maybe the specific language you're using is overriting the All Languages setting.

Or if you're working on legacy code Intellisense could see that it has spaces for indentation and it's overwriting all the tab/space program settings. 

 

 

Ive done this for both already but it still wont work. 

[TheBean]

how do I stop intellisense from changing it? idk even know what that is

[AnonymousGuy]

1 hour ago, TheBean said:

how do I stop intellisense from changing it? idk even know what that is

 go to Text Editor > Advanced and turn off "Use adaptive formatting". It was overwriting my preferences based off of the already-existing formatting of a given file

 

(from stackexchange)  You probably want to do a find replace all of ^(\s\s) regex to \t .  I dunno if that's actually correct but play around with it.

 

VS basically tries to be smart all the time and work with the code you already have.   Intellisense I think is their branding of autocomplete and real time syntax checking and whatnot.  Looks like "adaptive formatting" is what I was thinking they were probably doing is actually called.

[TheBean]

13 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

 go to Text Editor > Advanced and turn off "Use adaptive formatting". It was overwriting my preferences based off of the already-existing formatting of a given file

 

(from stackexchange)  You probably want to do a find replace all of ^(\s\s) regex to \t .  I dunno if that's actually correct but play around with it.

 

VS basically tries to be smart all the time and work with the code you already have.   Intellisense I think is their branding of autocomplete and real time syntax checking and whatnot.  Looks like "adaptive formatting" is what I was thinking they were probably doing is actually called.

adaptive formatting has always been turned off. 

I used regex to change that and it worked for a sec. but then when I press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D (format all code), then it reverts back to 2 spaces. 

[colonel_mortis]

Do you have a .editorconfig file anywhere in the repo? I don't know about VS specifically, but many editors will prefer the settings from .editorconfig over your settings because they are specific to that repo.

[TheBean]

On 9/4/2021 at 11:31 AM, colonel_mortis said:

Do you have a .editorconfig file anywhere in the repo? I don't know about VS specifically, but many editors will prefer the settings from .editorconfig over your settings because they are specific to that repo.

do i have to do this for every project? idk how to use this kinda file or what to put it. 

[colonel_mortis]

12 hours ago, TheBean said:

do i have to do this for every project? idk how to use this kinda file or what to put it. 

You could use it to override it, but I intended this as something you should check to make sure it isn't the cause of your problems - if there is an editorconfig file, it would explain why your settings are being ignored. If there isn't, and you wanted to use it to try and force settings, then yes you would need to put it for each project, and it's documented in https://editorconfig.org/.