Column insert brace deletes text and adds a new line

[jotux]

There’s some sort of issue with the VisualGDB format settings when inserting braces or parens while editing a column.

Example code:

int a = 0;
int b = 1;
int c = 2;
int d = 3;

If I column select just before the values and type a paren (or brace) the code erases everything between the top value and the last value, and inserts newlines:

int a = (

)3;

See the attached images.

I’ve tried disabling absolutely everything in Tools->Settings->Text Editor->C/C++(VisualGDB)->Formatting. It does not fix this issue. I’m pretty sure this is a VGDB issue, since I don’t have this issue in vanilla VS2019 C++ projects.

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[jotux]

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[jotux]

So switching the intellisense settings settings (VisualGDB Project Properties) to “Regular VC++ Intellisense”, then back to “Advanced Clang” made the problem go away. I’m not sure what the root cause is.

Is there any way to just outright disable formatting from VisualGDB?

[support]

No problem, we have fixed the issue in the following build: VisualGDB-5.5.7.3700.msi

[jotux]

A similar issue. For some reason now when I type an opening or closing brace the line un-indents.

I see this in the intellisense log:

[+7:37:43.437] Opening brace typed: bracket matching disabled, this occurence will be processed
[+7:37:43.438] Automatically un-indenting a line with ‘{‘: ‘ uint16_t data {‘
[+7:37:43.438] Indentation: ‘ ‘, expected: ‘ ‘

Is there some way I can just use the built-in visual studio formatter? I’m constantly fighting with the VisualGDB formatting engine.

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[support]

No problem. This looks like a bug triggered by a combination of the “indent braces” style, disabled auto-pairing of brackets, and disabled auto-reformatting of statements. Since this combination of settings is very rare, indeed it was not covered by our tests.

We have fixed it in the following build: VisualGDB-5.5.7.3703.msi

Either way, you can disable VisualGDB’s code formatting logic if you switch from Clang IntelliSense to the regular VS IntelliSense (only works with projects based on VC++). You can find a detailed description of supported scenarios here: https://visualgdb.com/documentation/intellisense/.

You can also find a searchable list of all VisualGDB settings automatically updated from the latest VisualGDB build here: https://visualgdb.com/settings/

 

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