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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 53

How to automatically place cursor between braces on its own line using Visual Studio 2017

When I place an open brace in Visual Studio 2017 (C#) the cursor automatically goes to the next line to the left of the end brace. Like this (period as cursor):

if() {
.}

I'd like the cursor to automatically be on its own line like this (period as cursor):

if() {
    .
}

Does anybody know how to make the cursor automatically go where the period is in the second example?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 864

Answers (4)

user3132457
user3132457

Reputation: 1029

If you want to automatically place the cursor inside the curly braces (i.e. without any shortcut), you can enable that from Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Formatting -> (check) Automatically format braces when they are automatically completed.

Of course, this is for C/C++. I don't use C# so I haven't tried for C#, but it should be similar, probably Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> Code Style -> Formatting -> (check) Automatically format block on } (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Upvotes: 0

PiotrWolkowski
PiotrWolkowski

Reputation: 8792

When you are at state 1 from your example use Ctrl + Enter.

This sends the line you are at one level down but keeps the cursor at current position. Effectively that will get you from state 1 in your example to state 2 in your example.

Upvotes: 3

Rinor
Rinor

Reputation: 1999

Meanwhile you are inside the parentheses of if (.) then use:

Ctrl + Shift + Enter

I use Resharper hotkeys so you might have different combination find it out by going under Environment -> Keyboard and show commands containing Edit.LineOpenBelow.

This command is responsible for that action.

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Upvotes: 1

Devin L.
Devin L.

Reputation: 447

Not sure because I am on VS 2013, but what you're looking for is probably in

Tools --> Options --> Text Editor --> C# --> formatting --> New Lines

Upvotes: 1

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