Indentation for SwiftUI

Using Swift
#1

In all the slides, and I think even some live coding examples, we see indentation like

VStack {
    ...
}
.padding()

But for me this indents as

VStack {
    ...
    }
    .padding()

Is this a bug, a setting, or do they manually format it like that?

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#2

It’s Xcode’s terrible indentation. They fixed it for the slides. You should file a bug about it.

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#3

That's a shame, I was really hoping there was some secret setting for this! This seems like a bug, not a matter of style, or is there any logic to it?

#4

Update from WWDC2020:

Looks like this was fixed per What's New in Swift in the WWDC video library!

#5

It's far better, though still flawed in some ways, like periods moving the line to the left (FB7758734). Overall some great improvements to SourceKit.

#6

Haha I was just watching that session now...

#7

It‘s neither a bug nor a setting.

VStack 
  .init {
    ...
  }
  .padding()

When you have a trailing closure and more modifiers, opt out and use init explicitly. Problem solved, no more weird indentation.

#8

Seeing that they brought it up in the session as an issue and released a fix for it, I’d say it’s pretty much a bug.

Thanks for the workaround though!

#9

The latter is still a wrong indentation as you are not writing code similar to the following. The closing curly brace is not correctly indented.

if condition {
    ...
  } else {
    ...
  }
#10

Have you checked out the Xcode settings and there the indentation settings?