Make auto-indent and auto-closing-character-insertion optional

[FArekkusu]

After solving and translating some katas for the last few dates, I find these 2 features more annoying than helpful. It'd be great if they were made optional settings, toggleable in the account settings for example, instead of being always on.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Clickup by Unito

[kazk]

Yeah, I've been wanting to make the editor configurable in general. It's impossible to make everyone happy with a single configuration.

If these new features are annoying a lot of users, I might prioritize it.

---

(Notes for future reference.)

Instead of putting it in Account Settings, I want to remove the awkward VIM/EMACS buttons and add ⚙️ that opens some dialog to set editor configurations (key maps, indent size, feature toggles, etc.).

For persisting configurations, maybe use something similar to VS Code (not a subset because many values won't make sense for CodeMirror).

{
  "editor.tabSize": 2,
  "editor.insertSpaces": true,
  "editor.autoClosingBrackets": true,
  "editor.autoIndent": true,
  "[rust]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 4
  },
  "[go]": {
    "editor.insertSpaces": false
  }
}

But this will require significantly more effort and will probably need to wait until I start working on rewriting the UI. So I might end up adding some options in Account Settings temporarily.

[kazk]

You can run the following in the developer console for now.

localStorage.setItem('editorOptions', JSON.stringify({
  autoCloseBrackets: false,
  smartIndent: false
}));

The following options are supported:

• tabSize
• indentWithTabs: defaults to false (indent with spaces, and Tab expands to tabSize spaces)
• smartIndent
• autoCloseBrackets

You can also override per language like in VSCode.

localStorage.setItem("editorOptions", JSON.stringify({
  tabSize: 2,
  indentWithTabs: false,
  "[go]": {
    tabSize: 4,
    indentWithTabs: true,
  }
}));

[JohanWiltink]

I don't know what's feasible and what is not, but I wholeheartedly support not fiddling with what I type.

Auto-indent works for me in JS, though not in LC ( we may have done something wrong with defining the syntax ), but I positively hate the auto inserting closing parens, and eating closing parens I actually type.

Language-specific options would be nice - not all languages are the same after all.