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Requesting update to C/C++ indentation rules for more common switch statement formatting #78

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TextMate auto-indents C and C++ in an unexpected way. To be specific, I would like to get:

This (1):

switch (x) {
    case 3:
        sdrhit;
    case 4:
        dfsdkfsd;
}

Or this (2):

switch (x) {
case 3:
    sdrhit;
case 4:
    dfsdkfsd;
}

Unfortunately, instead, I get this:

switch (x) {
    case 3:
    sdrhit;
    case 4:
    dfsdkfsd;
}

I figured out how to do this, and here are the necessary edits to the C indent rules:

{   increaseIndentPattern = '(?x)
        ^ .* \{ [^}"'']* $
    |   ^ \s* (public|private|protected): \s* $
    |   ^ \s* @(public|private|protected) \s* $
    |   ^ \s* \{ \} $
    |   ^ \s* (case\b .+ |default):     # NEW!
    ';
    decreaseIndentPattern = '(?x)
        ^ \s* ( (?! \S.* /[*] ) .* [*]/ \s* )? \}
    |   ^ \s* (public|private|protected): \s* $
    |   ^ \s* @(public|private|protected) \s* $
    |   (case\b .+ |default): \s* (/[/*] .*)? $     # NEW!
    ';
    indentNextLinePattern = '(?x)^
        (?! .* [;:{},] \s*                  # do not indent when line ends with ;, :, {, }, or comma
            ( // .* | /[*] .* [*]/ \s* )? $ #  …account for potential trailing comment
        |   @(public|private|protected)     # do not indent after obj-c data access keywords
        )
        .                                  # the negative look-ahead above means we don’t care about what we match here
    ';
    unIndentedLinePattern = '^\s*((/\*|\*/|//|template\b.*?>(?!\(.*\))|@protocol|@optional|@interface(?!.*\{)|@implementation|@end).*)?$';
    zeroIndentPattern = '^\s*#';
}

Even if the devs don't want to make this the default, anyone else encountering this problem could refer to this bug report if they want to change it themselves.

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