Indentation not correct when in block

[randomizedthinking]

The indentation of the powershell script is not correct when in braces blocks. For instance, the following lines are correct:

Write-Host "line 1"
Write-Host "line 2"

While, if they are inside a pair of braces, when use = to indent the code block, the outcome becomes:

If ($value -gt 0)
{
    Write-Host "line 1"
        Write-Host "line 2"
}

I can't confirm that. Indentation works fine for me.

Are your Vim settings correct? The file ps1.vim in \indent\ sets the smartindent. Try enabling/disabling the Vim's indent options to isolate the problem.

[heaths]

I couldn't repro this either.

[anthony-geoghegan]

I think the OP may be referring to the indentation when = is used to filter lines. If this is the case, I was able to reproduce this behaviour. Personally, I rarely use this feature so I’ve never had to look into it – and both equalprg and indentexpr are kept to their default values (blank).

[randomizedthinking]

Thanks @anthony-geoghegan. The original post is also edited to make the point clearer.

[heaths]

If someone knows how to fix this and wants to submit a PR, I'm happy to merge if scenario testing passes.

[fretep]

@heaths you mention scenario testing, are there unit tests we can populate with failing scenarios? If not, would you accept a PR for some unit tests perhaps utilizing Vader?

#18 (closed, not pulled) does not have this specific issue.

However, both smartindent used by this project and #18 have other issues like not working with herestrings, block comments, breaking on lines after a closing brace (i.e. the line after a param block), getting confused with backslashes in strings and other issues.

Unfortunately, I'm not all that familiar with the way the indent code works, but I'd be happy to have a crack to see how far I can get, but I'd be happier if we had a test of tests that people agreed on that I could chip away at getting to passing.

[sethcenterbar]

Idk if this is still being worked on, but I'm having the same issue as OP.

[heaths]

@fretep, we do not have tests currently but Vader at a glance seems fine. I just meant for someone to go through the broken scenario and make sure it works, and make sure - at least with basic testing - nothing regressed. I test out the PRs before merging typically, but it's good to test at both ends. The person who submitted #18 closed the issue themselves since it didn't work as expected in scenarios they tested.

@sethcenterbar, we will happily accept PRs to fix this behavior.

[nsartor]

Not a a great solution, but if you add a semicolon to the end of each powershell line, then gg=G (indent whole file) works as expected.

So in the example by @randomizedthinking you would need to change it to this:

If ($value -gt 0)
{
    Write-Host "line 1";
    Write-Host "line 2";
}

Definitely not ideal, but it works.

[xeyownt]

I also had a similar problem, which is that automatic indentation of the closing brace was bad when typing (I'm using auto-pairs also, which inserts these automatically).

And I confirm this is due to having equalprg set globally in .vimrc file.

Removing that line fixed the issue for me. I rather set that according to filetype now.

[sisrfeng]

I had similar problem and removing set smartindent in indent/ps1.vim solved it.