Formatting of switch statement

Question

Say I have my cursor position to the right of a right facing case curly brace, like so:

Now, if I press enter, I expect it to auto align the cursor two tabs in, just like the break statement. But what it does is this:

It adds a ridiculous five tabs! Knowing that Visual studio has a metric ton of settings, I navigate to Tools::Settings::Text Editor::C/C++::Formatting::Indentation, and see the following window:

But changing the highlighted options in any combination actually doesn't affect the indentation at all! None of the other options seem to apply to switch statements, so I don't know what to do. How do I make it not indent 5 spaces, without disabling auto formatting?

And I might add, it not only places 5 tabs when I press enter at the end of the curly brace, but when any auto format event takes place. So when I add a semicolon at the end of a line it places 5 tabs even if I had taken them out before.

Answer 1

This is probably a bit late for you now, but in case someone else finds this issue: it seems to be a Visual Studio bug, you're probably running the freshly installed version of the VS2K13 called REL.

Downloading the Update 4 at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44921 helped in my case.

Answer 2

The curly braces ({ and }) are throwing off the auto-indenter, and it's indenting to one tab beyond the brace.

Braces there are not illegal in a switch statement, but they usually don't do you any good. Unless you need it for scoping a variable declaration, just remove the curly braces. You'll get the same code flow, and you won't confuse the auto-indenter.

EDIT Come to think of it, you can solve this by simply moving the brace to a new line. This isn't necessarily horrible - it highlights that you're using a brace.

case SDLK_g:
    {
        // etc
        break;
    }

Answer 3

I went into VS2013 and created a new project and just tried making a really simple switch but it formatted correctly for me, even with the curly braces. Are you able to post that set of code?

The only other thing I can think of is maybe a setting on how braces are set up, but I don't know why that would affect it. (Nor do I think there is really even a setting for that for C++...) Other than that though you could try just not using the braces at all since you are inside a case statement, you don't technically need them.

Other than that something may have happened during installation. So re-installing is an option too.

EDIT:
Also, could just go with it and finish the code and then when finished just highlight the rows and un-indent ([SHIFT]+[TAB]) them back to their correct spot.