Indenting Starting on the Indent String

[GhotiHed]

I'm currently using Ultra-Edit 32 v12.10a to write C++ code, and I have the following lines in my wordfile.txt file:

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/Indent Strings = "{"
/Unindent Strings = "}"

This provides me with automatically indented code that looks like the following:

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void blahblahdeblah()
{
    if (blahblahagainblah)
    {
        asdfasdf();
    }
    haveacow();
}

This is all well and good, but I've just been handed a project where I need to have the braces indented to match the enclosing code. This means the previous code should appear as follows:

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void blahblahdeblah()
    {
    if (blahblahagainblah)
        {
        asdfasdf();
        }
    haveacow();
    }

I've been looking all over the place, including this forum, for information on how to do this, and the closest I can get is to use the external Artistic Style application to range over my code and redo it. I'd much rather have this done as I go.

Is there something I can set to have the indention level done starting with the indent string, rather than the line after it? Thanks.

Me

[pietzcker]

One way that I can think of:

If you remove the braces from the (un)indent strings list and instead use "if" "void" "while" etc. etc. as indent strings, then you'll get the indentation this way. You'll have to "outdent" manually, though.

Any other ideas?

[roland]

I am trying, but I can't help myself... Troll alert:

Maybe that GNU style should just be banned?

[Mofi]

A possible solution for GNU indenting style is to turn of auto-indent partly for C/C++ with empty indent and unindent strings in the syntax highlighting wordfile and write 2 macros in an automatically loaded macro file with hot keys assigned to the keys used to normally insert a { or }.

The macro can than make the indent and unindent job on pressing of key { or }. Something like that for inserting a { (with real tabs for indenting):

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
IfExtIs "c"
"tab{
"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "cpp"
"tab{
"
ExitMacro
EndIf
"{"

Note: tab must be a real tab character.

And something like that for inserting a } :

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
IfExtIs "c"
IfColNumGt 1
Key LEFT ARROW
IfCharIs 9
Delete
Else
Key RIGHT ARROW
EndIf
EndIf
"}
"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "cpp"
IfColNumGt 1
Key LEFT ARROW
IfCharIs 9
Delete
Else
Key RIGHT ARROW
EndIf
EndIf
"}
"
ExitMacro
EndIf
"}"