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How to disable automatic tab indentation change after copy paste?

When I copy a piece of code and paste it somewhere else in the IDE, my custom code indentation levels are changed by Visual Studio automatically. How do I prevent this?

Example:
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My current tab settings are:
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I want to continue using the Smart Indenting feature and actual tab characters (not spaces instead of them). I only want to prevent this particular behavior.

Solution

  • It looks like you are using Visual Assist X (a guess from the font highlighting), which does this. VS2012 itself doesn't have this feature so far as I know.

    To turn it off in Visual Assist X, under VASSISTX->Visual Assist X Options..., select Advanced->Corrections and uncheck "Format after paste (in C/C++/C#/Javascript)".

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