General Formatter Style

ReSharper's formatting options are configurable in a very flexible way and for each supported language separately. While this page provides a few general settings, the language-specific pages (Code Editing | [Language] | Formatting Style) allow you to fine-tune code formatting according to your coding standards and practices.

The options that you configure on this page apply in the following cases:

When code is automatically formatted on editing or after pasting (you can toggle auto-formatting on the Environment | Editor | Behavior page of ReSharper options (Alt+R, O).
When ReSharper produces new code with code completion and code generation features, applies code templates and performs refactorings.
When you reformat existing code.


How to indent multi-language files	These options define how to indent injected languages in a code file — for example, how to indent JavaScript code in an HTML file. Indent all languages equally using settings from main language (as Visual Studio does) When this option is selected, ReSharper uses similar indents for all injected languages. Indent each language using its own settings (as ReSharper 7 and older did) When this option is selected, ReSharper uses indents defined for each language in the corresponding settings pages: Code Editing \| [Language] \| Formatting Style.
Auto-detect indent size and style	When you reformat a part of code in a file or when code is auto-formatted on editing or pasting, ReSharper can calculate and apply indentation based on the existing indents in the rest of that file. This feature comes in handy when you want to contribute to existing projects where indentation differs from your settings. You can also toggle the auto-detecting indents preference and view its status in the File Formatting Info window. Note that ReSharper will NOT auto-detect indents if you reformat the whole file or multiple files, or if there are .editorconfig files that affect the current file. Note also, that if you enable auto-detecting indents, or indents in ReSharper settings, or if you have .editorconfig files that affect the current file, then indents from these sources are temporary saved in Visual Studio settings while the affected file is open and active in Visual Studio. You should take this into account if synchronization of Visual Studio settings is enabled. Use this checkbox to enable or disable this behavior.
Provide ReSharper indent settings to Visual Studio	If this option is enabled, ReSharper will provide indenting preferences (both from its layer-based settings and from supported configuration files) to Visual Studio, so that they are used when the code is created or transformed using Visual Studio features. This option is disabled by default because ReSharper overrides almost all Visual Studio's coding assistance features with its own features.
Default line ending style	ReSharper allows you to use custom line endings in your code, and you can use this selector to choose which line ending style should be used.
Enforce line ending style on full reformat	When this option is disabled, the selected line ending style will only apply when new files are created with ReSharper features (for example, file templates or refactorings). When this option is enabled ReSharper will also apply the selected line ending style when you reformat code or run code cleanup on a file, project, or solution.

Code style configuration files


Read code style from .editorconfig files	EditorConfig is a configuration file convention that is used to define and maintain consistent code styles between team members working on the same code as well as between different editors and IDEs that they might use. The styles are saved in INI-like files named .editorconfig, where section names are file masks and properties inside a section define code styles for files matching that masks. Use this checkbox to make ReSharper respect code formatting styles defined in EditorConfig configuration files. For more information, see Use EditorConfig.
Write current style to .editorconfig	Click this button to export code styles from ReSharper settings to an .editorconfig file.
Edit .editorconfig interactively	Click this button to configure a new or existing .editorconfig file using ReSharper options user interface.
Read code style from .clang-format files	Clang-Format is a widely-used C++ code formatter. It provides an option to define code style options in YAML-formatted files — named .clang-format or _clang-format — and these files often become a part of your project where you keep all code style rules. Use this checkbox to make ReSharper respect code formatting styles defined in Clang-Format configuration files. For more information, see Using Clang-Format.
Write current style to .clang-format	Click this button to export code styles from ReSharper settings to a .clang-format file.
Read code style from StyleCop files	When StyleCop integration is enabled, settings from StyleCop files (RuleSet and Settings.StyleCop) will override ReSharper code formatting and code syntax styles, and enable corresponding code inspections. If you use EditorConfig and StyleCop configuration files simultaneously, the EditorConfig settings will always take precedence over both StyleCop and ReSharper settings. This means that if settings from StyleCop files (RuleSet and Settings.StyleCop) do not give desired results, you can always override specific settings using EditorConfig properties.
Show indicator in status bar when EditorConfig is present	If this option is enabled, ReSharper displays the icon in the bottom right part of the Visual Studio window if there are any code style configuration files that apply to the current solution. You can double-click this icon to study active EditorConfig configurations in the File Formatting Info window.

Last modified: 21 November 2022