Visual Studio Code Snippets don't work with K&R style braces

Question

I am running the latest version of Visual Studio 2019 (16.9.4). I have changed my C++ code to use K&R style braces by going to Tools > Options > Text Editor > C/C++ > Code Style > Formatting > New Lines and changing all the options to Keep on same line, but add a space before. The issue is that when I do this code snippets no longer work correctly, for example:

Normally when using Allman style braces the if code snippet would look like this:

if (true)
{

}

What I expected it to look like when using K&R style braces was this:

if (true) {

}

But what it actually looked like was this:

if (true)   {

}

This is very annoying as whenever I use a code snippet to complete an if statement, for loop or anything else I have to waste time removing the extra characters it inserts. Any help would be appreciated :)

Answer 1

Hi @Roland ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

You can try the workaround posted by Viorel-1 to manually remove the space.

Based on my testing, I can reproduce it, I suggest you report it to product team engineers by selecting “Help” menu > Send Feedback > Report a Problem.

Sincerely,
Anna

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