Allow users to define their own indentation rules within the settings

[aiday-mar]

This feature request derives from #43244 (comment). In that thread, some users have been mentioning they wanted to undo some changes that were made to language configuration files. To help them, we could allow them to edit the indentation rules directly within the settings files.

[aiday-mar]

After discussing with the team, we have come to the conclusion that we do not want to pass on the complexity of the indentation rules to the end user. The indentation rules are quite complicated and if not well thought out by the user, they could cause indentation issues. For now we will not add support for setting overriding, however interested users can create extensions which provide their own language configuration files.

[FlowIT-JIT]

@aiday-mar This is absolutely unacceptable. The changes in 1.88.x+ broke the editing experience. Literally broke it. We constantly have to fix broken code now. See #209802

And the new behaviour doesn't align with the explaination in settings:

"The editor will keep the current line's indentation"

How 1.88 was accepted as a stable version ready for release is beyond me.

EDIT: Switching to the "Advanced" option actually seems to solve some of the problems introduced in 1.88. I will be testing that.

[aiday-mar]

Hi @FlowIT-JIT thank you for expressing your concern, I will look into unindenting the line when a bracket is typed on an indented line after a braceless if/for/while statement.