Copilot suggesting lines with different indentation space amounts than editor settings (Jetbrains)

[7MinutesDead-Git]

Every now and then Copilot will start predicting what I want to write next, but its suggestions will not match the indent settings within Jetbrains IDEs (or at least in this case, WebStorm while writing javascript, since I haven't tested this in the other IDEs).

Most of the time it will suggest code lines indented by 2 spaces, although I have my editor settings set to 4 spaces for javascript.

I think it starts properly suggesting 4 spaces indents as long as there is a leading line before it that I have entered first in that scope. But if it's the first line suggested in a new scope / code block, the indentation doesn't always match. I haven't verified this as the exact reproducible behavior yet though, just that it has been occurring sporadically.

Is there a workaround for this?

[Heath123]

I'm having a similar issue, in my case the ghost text shows as 2 spaces as it should but the completion gets set to 4, maybe the IDE is trying to auto-indent the code that was already indented?
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13787163/170359826-6eabb5ef-de3b-40e1-aa9e-fca2d0232971.mp4

[OfirBotDev]

Same here, On the press of enter it adds one to the expected ident, if deleted and click 'tab' it will only go one space..
This is new issue for me.. been working with co pilot for some time and did not faced this so far..

[vidanovic]

Same here. Quite annoying and still not fixed.

[fishiu]

Same here. Quite annoying and still not fixed.

[hawkkiller]

This issue is still relevant

[kamal-hakim]

Seems like it's still not fixed.

[Magorx]

Seems like it's still not fixed.

[7MinutesDead-Git]

It's now been a year and a half. At this point I'd love to just fix this shit myself

[mikeatlas]

Currently seeing tabs inserted via Copilot completions in a Go project that is spaces.

[vasyan]

Same problem. Moreover, it kinda conflicts with Webstorm's automatic indent detection ( it doesn't care if it is turned off ) and funked up my formatting here and there.

[Wizzerinus]

still relevant. it's particularly nasty in languages like yaml which really do care about the indents

[UmeshKonduru]

Still relevant

[tajnymag]

Like Wizzerinus said, yaml files are really nasty. It's really hard to write OpenAPI specs, for example, as I have to correct indentations for each autocompleted chunk otherwise the document is invalid.

[mikeatlas]

seems to me like this is something that could at least be fixed on the client side relatively easily without having to make it work in the upstream LLM interaction 🤔 just need to adjust output formatting before rendering perhaps?

[tajnymag]

seems to me like this is something that could at least be fixed on the client side relatively easily without having to make it work in the upstream LLM interaction 🤔 just need to adjust output formatting before rendering perhaps?

Sure. However, it still needs to be done in the plugin, not in the IDE. The issue does fall under GitHub/Microsoft, not JetBrains.

[arthurwolf]

Having this problem too (vscode)

[bvolpato]

For vscode (haven't tried JetBrains), change indentationMode to true for Python, but it may cause suggestions to come line by line -- so pick your poison, I guess.

[arthurwolf]

is this really python-specific, any way to use a similar fix for typescript you think?

[juasbhu28]

Thats horrible to try to fix the format in each sentence. :'( Someone please fix this!

[danieljimenez-mycase]

Something that helped for jetbrains (using rubymine) was changing editor>code style> language(ruby, javascript, typescript) to have the same indentation as my files.

[wang818]

me too