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sharpchen (sharpchen)

opened on Dec 11, 2025

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Summary

Formatter always format code as the specified indent style no matter how long the statement is:

# before
$foo = if ($true) {1} else {0}

# after 
$foo = if ($true) {
    1
} else {
    0
}

# expected
$foo = if ($true) { 1 } else { 0 }

The code became too sparse by being enforced to the indentation style.

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Reacted by Olav Rønnestad Birkeland

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1. sharpchen (sharpchen)

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   on Dec 11, 2025
2. Andy Jordan (andyleejordan)

   transferred this issue fromPowerShell/PowerShellEditorServiceson Dec 23, 2025
3. bergmeister commented on Mar 31, 2026

   

   Christoph Bergmeister (bergmeister)

   on Mar 31, 2026

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   I get the idea but implementation might not be trivial because the rules count indentation levels and I feel like it's more about what inside braces. Maybe having a way to add comment to skip additional indentation for next line could be easier implementation.
4. Christoph Bergmeister (bergmeister)

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   on Mar 31, 2026
5. sharpchen commented on Mar 31, 2026

   

   sharpchen (sharpchen)

   on Mar 31, 2026

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   Maybe having a way to add comment to skip additional indentation for next line could be easier implementation.

   That's the very reason I opened #2151

   Would it be possible to do recursive calculation from inner scope to outer?
   If inner scope has to expand by indentation, the outer should expand too. If no inner scope exists, we should respect the max line length to decided whether to expand etc.

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