Option to disable auto-indentation

[NichtJens]

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• [X] Completed

Describe the feature

I would like to disable auto-indentation either entirely for the whole editor or per language.

I generally prefer no auto-indentation but having this option would also allow for a straight forward workaround in case of issues with the auto-indentation logic (like here #10832).

If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help present your vision of the feature

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[tcurdt]

If you need a reason or a test - try pasting in yaml files. Holy smokes, is this annoying.

[iammati]

What's the status on this? I literally jump back-and-forth between IDEs because of the (hella annoying) auto-indentation... T_T

[oshavrov]

Got the same behavior for Haskell: Trying to paste

write2log :: Monad m => String -> LoggT m ()
write2log = undefined

to the beginning of the line where the cursor is

instance (MonadFail m) => MonadFail (LoggT m) where
  fail = LoggT . fail
^ here

to get it like:

instance (MonadFail m) => MonadFail (LoggT m) where
  fail = LoggT . fail

write2log :: Monad m => String -> LoggT m ()
write2log = undefined

but the editor pastes it here:

instance (MonadFail m) => MonadFail (LoggT m) where
  fail = LoggT . fail
  
  write2log :: Monad m => String -> LoggT m ()
  write2log = undefined

The behavior is similar to this: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/13338#issue-2365404299

Basically, I want to paste my code wherever the cursor is.

[Kartoffelpeter]

Sublime text solves it like this:

• Just paste your content like it is: ctrl + v
• Paste your content with automatic identation: ctrl + shift + v

really convinient

[NichtJens]

Just to add, I am not entirely sure we are all asking about the same. In principle, I was asking about a way to disable auto-indentation while editing. The fact that this would be a workaround for issues with indention upon pasting was meant as a bonus.

[ariaydejawad]

Same issue with auto-indent being applied when pasting, albeit I can only get it to reproduce with TypeScript files. I tried YAML, but it was not reproducible there.

[stolen-byte]

Any movement on this?

It's becoming incredibly frustrating when writing Makefiles, eg:

all:
  $(HIDE)| <-- automatically dedents here

side-note: this particular situation could be a problem with the Make extension? but afaik it contains no code, only language *.scm stuff, which is over my head.

[LaTrissTitude]

Same problem in Python

[injust]

Seems like a duplicate of https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11780, which was fixed in https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/36259.

[oshavrov]

"auto_indent": false in my settings.json works like a charm.

[LPGhatguy]

Since this is closed, is there another open issue for the ctrl+v/ctrl+shift+v difference for automatic indentation when pasting? Turning off auto-indent completely isn't a solution for some of the cases folks have commented here about.