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Automatically Adjust Function Parameter Indentation Upon Renaming a Function

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#37,070 opened on Jul 9, 2019

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Area-IDEFeature - RenameIDE-Formatterhelp wanted

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Description

Original Developer community feedback

Rename the following function from foo to foobar will throw off the parameter alignment

void foo(parameter a,
         parameter b)
{
    ...
}

foo > foobar

void foobar(parameter a,
         parameter b)
{
    ...
}

I would like Visual Studio to automatically adjust the parameter alignment. Note that parameter alignment is one of the formatting options in Visual Studio.

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Research direction
Investigate how Roslyn handles parameter indentation alignment during rename operations, specifically looking at the formatting engine's smart indentation logic. Understand the expected behavior from the linked Developer Community feedback and explore potential changes to the rename handler to automatically adjust alignment.
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