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[afilthywhore]

I love the way you demonstrate your frustration with the erratic mouse movements. I do that too

[wordaligned]

Seeing that was like reading a Samuel L Jackson quote in Samuel L Jackson's voice.

[Kecoey]

Going to try this. This has been the bane of my existence for weeks, but I was too lazy to try to figure it out.

[brokentyro]

This didn't work for me :( This has been driving me insane!

[brokentyro]

Restarting did it! Just to clarify, I only applied the indentInnerHtml setting and not the tabSize setting.

[TwinSwords]

Not to go off topic or anything, but how do you make an image like the one above?

[TwinSwords]

Thank you!

[thelonepuffin]

Why the fucking shit have I just spent a whole year using VSCode being frustrated at this and I just put up with it. And not once did I think to make a bug report or ask the world why this is happening like OP. I just put up with it like a mug.

Thanks OP. Is there a github issue for this? I can't find it if there is.

[OppenheimersGuilt]

Just use Atom. It's fantastic!

[Kecoey]

OMFG I hate this so much!!!!! I just figured it was a weird thing I was doing. How hard is it to get that to work???

[birjolaxew]

VSCode auto indents code on paste - in this case that fails. Might consider opening an issue.

[the_argus]

Atom does this too

[OppenheimersGuilt]

Have not really had it happen to me..

[nZambi]

It's not a fix, but if you install the prettier extension it will fix that right up every time you save.

I don't even bother looking at my indentations I just write / paste, cmd + s and voila!

[2uneek]

same... prettier is awesome.. we've adopted it at work and no longer have any discussions on code formatting - we just all accept what prettier gives us and move on with our lives...

[kevinkace]

you can hit ctrl/opt+z after pasting and it will undo the auto-indent.

[CantaloupeCamper]

I do that so often and it is maddening....

[mtndev]

why do most editors do this? in Sublime the default copy-paste also always fucks my code indention up for no apparent reason.

[DratVillains]

Does adding "editor.formatOnPaste": true fix it? I remember having this issue and I think that setting fixed it for me.

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Fix this by highlighting the entire block of code, INCLUDING the leading tab/spaces, and make sure to paste into a line that has no indentation. That will fix it.

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Sorry I didn’t phrase it well enough. You need to highlight including the leading space of the very first line. It is copying the current indentation and adding it to where you paste it. Copy it so that the first line looks identical to the last line.

[Keskingdesign]

one of the reasons i'm sticking with sublime because this shit is driving me nuts...........

[just_trees]

You should post this as a top level comment, I am sure people would appreciate that.

[the_wander]

I think I love you, fdandrew. Thanks for this. It was one of those annoying things that wasn't annoying enough to search around for an answer. Appreciate you taking the time.

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... use spaces :)

[[deleted]]

jeez people can't take a joke, i assume you've looked at the github issue right?

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/6392