Smart indentation stopped working with Unity 5.3's MonoDevelop

I had Smart indentation enabled in MonoDevelop, but installing Unity 5.3 broke that.

Now if Smart indentation is enabled, it will double-indent, i.e. if it has to place 1 tab it will place 2 instead, if it has to place 3 it will place 6, etc.

If I switch to Automatic indentation it works as intended, but I'd rather keep the Smart one if possible…

 

I too have noticed this very annoying issue. Is there a fix around this? Copying and pasting, even with auto indentation, produces multiple tabs, i.e, very deep indentations. I'm having to type out things and let autocomplete finish to avoid having to fix indentation on code blocks.

 

Going nuts over this, thanks for the auto-indent tip ;-)
edit: also OSX here.

 

It would be useful to know if only some people are affected by this problem, or it affects everyone… could someone speak up?

 

Can confirm that this happens as well, and it makes me have to delete redundant indents every time I make a line break. It's a pretty serious bug.

I'm using Windows 10, if it might be related to that. However, it doesn't seem to happen in every document, but most. Could it be related to the line break encodings of the document you're editing? Or could documents have different settings in some other ways?

 

I'm using OS X so it's definitely a cross-platform bug.
To me it has happened on every file I tried, but I didn't try many: I searched immediately for a workaround.
Then I posted here.

 

I am having the same problem, but have found a solution that works for me.
The problem for me turned out to be an indent width of 8, which was set only for the current solution, and was not shown in the preferences, where the value was 4 as it should be in my case.
I am working on a Mac by the way.

In stead I found it under Project -> Solution Options -> Source Code -> C# source code
So, I just unchecked the "Use default settings from 'Text file' and set the Indent width back to 4.
How that sneaky 8 got there in the first place I dont know, but happy days as now everything works again incl. smart indentation.

 

This was driving me nuts for days after upgrading to U5.3.
Set indentation to Smart or Auto, still give out extra indentation.
Even None still indent the line after I open type "(".

UncleBill your solution fixed my issue.
I was looking for the TAB spacing everywhere in the Preferences and I couldn't find it.
So Thank you thank you.

I'm also running on OSX.

 

Thanks UncleBill, that was definitely the problem. I wonder why the default was set to 8 spaces in the new Mono version. That's very non-standard.

 

Thanks UncleBill, thats help me too.

 

I'm having this very same issue happening to me, but in my case the suggested fix doesn't help and has only started occurring since 5.3.5p1 for me