#119 automatic generation of close curly brace

[beauxq]

I type my code like this:

if (foo() == 42)
    bar();

cout << something_else << endl;

Then I think, Oh wait, there's something else I want to do if foo returns 42...

so I need a curly brace...

I put my cursor at the end of the "if" line, press enter, press backspace to de-indent, that's where my curly brace goes...

Code::Blocks gives me this:

if (foo() == 42)
{

}
    bar();

cout << something_else << endl;

This is the thing I find most annoying about coding in Code::Blocks.
(I don't know whether other IDEs do this or something else.)

It seems like it should be able to see that this is what I want:

if (foo() == 42)
{

    bar();
}

cout << something_else << endl;

If the number of lines, below the insertion of a curly brace, that are indented compared to what is above the insertion of the curly brace, is 1, then put the automatically generated close brace after that 1 line.

[Teodor Petrov]

This is the main reason, I don't use this feature. It is pretty annoying when editing existing code.

A workaround you can use is to go to the closing curly brace and use alt-down arrow to move the line where it belongs.

[ollydbg]

I also think it is a very annoying bug.

[Alpha]

This is sort of a feature to deal with this case. Enable "Selection brace completion" in general settings. Select anything (does not matter what) on the line with bar().

if (foo() == 42)
    bar();

Type "{". Now you have:

if (foo() == 42)
    {
        bar();
    }

Not exactly what we want :/ ... but I think the extra level of indentation (select it all and shift-tab it away) is due to another piece of auto-indent code that was written without testing this feature.