Monodevelop annoying auto indentation

Nope. I'm all for using alternative IDEs, unless they're made by Microsoft.

As for solutions, some here are "kinda" working, but not quite (meaning that in different part of code it may still format on paste). At least in previous MonoDevelop, you could press ctrl+z and it would undo indentation only, but here it undoes both indentation and whatever code you've pasted

 

@darkhog, if that makes you less unhappy, you may want to know that the new VS 2015 Community edition is as bad in indenting code as MD

 

I suspected as much. It is Microsoft we're talking about after all. I hope Unity will either open their branch of MD, so I can add this change myself (MD's written in C#, right?) or add option that makes possible to no reindend the code when pasting. Because as it is now, it isn't very nice.

That paste-indend thing is my only complaint about MD, by the way. Love everything else in this IDE.

 

I have found the absolute solution working December 22 2015 on windows 7.
First go to Tools > Options > Text editor > General > Coding >

And then un-check > aggressively trigger code completion list

 

@CultureExplorer I haven't tried that but it doesn't sound like that will fix the auto-indent

 

this one helped for most of the md problems:
instead of using the options,
created custom policy (and modified c# format settings there)
and then applied that (after its applied can run edit/format document)
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/monodevelop-changing-tab-size-has-no-effect.155365/#post-1099202

 

Sorry, but I won't bend to MD's will. It is supposed to work the other way around.

 

The auto indentation is very annoying after going to MD 5.9.6. Pasting code or new lines just forces 2 taps in place.
It's very annoying. I like MD because it gives me a consistent IDE to work on Win and OSX machines.
I hope they could offer a solution or patch to fix it.

 

Seems like @UncleBill has found a solution for the auto-indent issue: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/sm...h-unity-5-3s-monodevelop.373072/#post-2429005

I don't use MD so I won't even try but you folks may want to check if this fixes your issue.

 

It kinda fixes it, but it is not a full fix as it still will reindend on paste if you have different indentation than one set in policies. Proper fix would get rid of reindenting completly, no matter of how file was formatted (or not formatted) in the first place.

 

I'm a bit sad as well, I always liked MD, but this new version just isn't usable anymore...
Where I had a nice auto indentation before, it now won't add the tab; so I add it by hand, and while I'm typing my code it is automatically removed... Guess I'll have to try VS :/

 

BIG BUMP.
Worked fine in last iteration, but with Unity 5.3.1 this annoying feature succcckkkkks.

Please bring sanity into the conversation and have normal indenting.
Thanks. Seems such a small thing.

 

I upgraded one of my old unity project to unity 5.3.2 and faced this issue , after tying a lots solutions, one thing worked for me.

Project -> Solution Options -> Source Code (Code Formatting) -> (In C# source code, Set Policy to ) Microsoft Visual Studio. (I am attaching an Image so you don't get confused).

also in the process of solving this issue , if you have changed something in Preferences-> TextEditor-> Behaviour-> Indentation-> Indentation mode to Automatic (Than please revert it back to Smart).


Here is the reference image:

 

Found a fix that worked for me.

I also had a SEVERE nightmare auto-indention issue after upgrading a project from Unity 4 to Unity 5. I resolved this issue personally by deleting Assembly-CSharp.csproj and ProjectName.sln from the project folder, and then relaunching Unity. You might only need to delete the first one. Good luck to you.

P.S. Oh. I also went into Tools -> Options -> Source Code -> Code Formatting and I changed my formatting policy to Microsoft Visual Studio. This is not enough alone to solve the issue--I had to delete the files as well because this preference was being ignored, even despite setting inheritance in the solution options. So do both things and you should be golden.

 

In my case, reset "Indent width" solution setting solved the issue.

There is a setting for MonoDevelop at "Preferences -> Code Formatting -> Indent width" (probably 4).
But there is also a setting for the actual solution at "Project -> Solution Options -> Code Formatting -> Indent width". Which was 8 in my case (can't tell why), resetting to 4 solved the issue.

 

Just disable "Enable on the fly code formatting" in the behavior section of tools
Works like a charm
I tried this on MonoDevelop 5.9; I don't know if it works on anything below 5.0

 

For Monodevelop 5.9.6 (and maybe earlier versions) you can disable auto-indenting by
Edit->Preferences->(Go to heading)Text Editor->(Select)Behavior,(Go to heading)Indentation->Identation mode, select and set to None.

 

JustinReinhart, you are a life saver! Worked for me. Thank you sir!

 

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I too was going nuts with this. The "Project -> Solution Options -> Code Formatting -> Indent width" was the fix for me. I set every single one of the document types to 4 and that fixed it.

 

I fixed it by installing Visual Studio Code. The long nightmare is over.

 

If fixing the Policy in Tools -> Options does not work, ensure that the policy is in use at Project -> Solution Options

 

I did the same, also, patches come fast for Visual Studio Code.