Visual Code C/C++ formatting of braces {}

Question

In VSCode, I wanted my opening curly braces { to be in the same line, instead of a new line and for that I changed C_Cpp.clang_format_fallbackStyle from Visual Studio to LLVM, which seemed to work.

But it does this thing which I don't want, which is it formats my if-else statements like this:

if (condition){
    do_something()
} else {
    do_something_else()
}

Instead, I want it to be like this:

if (condition){
    do_something()
} 
else {
    do_something_else()
}

Basically I want each closing bracket to be on it's on line, whether it's for if-else statements or try-catch, or whatever. How do I do that?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '20 at 19:43

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In your VS Code settings should be able to do something like
"C_Cpp.clang_format_fallbackStyle": "{ BasedOnStyle: LLVM, BreakBeforeBraces: Custom, BraceWrapping: { BeforeElse: true }"

For more info:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html
Visual Studio Code formatting for "{ }"
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/cpp-ide

answered Dec 28 '20 at 19:43

Aaron Record

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@SatvikGupta Then would you mind marking it as accepted? Thanks – Aaron Record Jan 19 '21 at 01:44

Visual Code C/C++ formatting of braces {}

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