Sunday, 18 August 2013

How do I turn of auto-formatting in VS2013 for C++?

How do I turn of auto-formatting in VS2013 for C++?

VS2013 has added auto-formatting for C++. My personal opinion on
auto-formatting is that it's ultimately harmful for developers but I have
to accept not everyone agrees. What bugs me is that I can't seem to
disable auto-formatting completely. I have unchecked every checkbox under
Tools->Text Editor->C/C++->Formatting->General yet when I type:
void f ()
VS2013 replaces this with
void f()
That's not the code-standard in this specific project which means I have
to go back and insert a space. There are other examples where I have to
fight against VS.
I don't want to change the spacing settings because
I work in multiple projects with different code standards
I don't believe in auto-formatting so I just want it to get out of my way
I just want VS to not modify my code automatically.
PS. I am not against that VS can format code but I want to invoke that
manually

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