Incorrect indentation after C multi-line comment blocks

[acarlson-i3]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes
NOTE: When all extensions are disabled, there is no correct indentation after a multi-line comment block. But the C/C++ Extension pack appears to allow the first line after a multi-line comment block to be indented correctly.

• VS Code Version: 1.97.2
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

I noticed this issue when attempting to copy and paste the contents from one file to another. I believe this is specifically tied to the multi-line comment block.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Start a new file
2. Set language to C
3. Create a multi-line comment block

4. Place cursor at the end of the final line of the comment block
5. Create a new line, observe indentation returns to column 1
6. Create a new line, observe the indentation advances to column 2

new.line.indent.bug.mp4

5. Paste any content below the comment block and observe the indentation advance to column 2

new.line.paste.bug.mp4

6. Paste an entire file that begins with this style of comment block and observe the indentation advance to column 1

whole.file.paste.bug.mp4

[aiday-mar]

Hi would I be correct in understanding that after you have moved down to column 1, you want to stay on column 1 thereafter until you have done some explicit indentation?

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[martinjaeger]

Hi would I be correct in understanding that after you have moved down to column 1, you want to stay on column 1 thereafter until you have done some explicit indentation?

After the multi-line comment, the indentation should go back to column 0 and stay there (no indentation) and not go to column 1.

I don't think this is a feature-request, but a bug. It worked well in previous versions of VS code, as far as I can tell.

[aiday-mar]

Thanks for the clarification. The reason I was mentioning column 1 is because our position system is 1-based, 1 being the minimum column.

I see thanks for letting me know. I think the reason this is happening is because the indentation is currently calculated as being the indentation of the last non empty line. In your case this is calculated as 1 because there is one whitespace before the multi-line comment. If this is indeed the reason for this issue, I would like to add a setting to make the indentation be the same as the previous line indentation independent of the last non-empty line. This would in effect solve this situation. I have to investigate this further however.