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Formatter: allow continuation indent different from nested indent

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#1,991 opened on Feb 9, 2015

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Description

The Google style guide http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml#Code_formatting requires indenting by two spaces for nested code, but by 4 spaces when continuing a statement or declaration on the next line. This configuration doesn't seem to be possible.

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Investigate how to add a separate indentation setting for continuation lines in the TypeScript formatter. Look into the formatter's configuration options and parsing of AST to apply different indent sizes based on context.
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typescript
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tooling
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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TypeScript
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65