Question

I often find myself in situations where I would like to indent preprocessor directives like the rest of the code (e.g. #if indented like if). It seems legal, it’s common sense that it’s sometimes a good thing, but Visual won’t make it easy.

Is there a way to prevent the Visual C++ 2010 editor from sticking the code to the left each time I innocently press #? And to not break preprocessor directives indentation with auto-indent (CTRL+K, CTRL+F)? Or even better, to handle preprocessor directives like everything else?

Answer 1

My approach is to keep the # in the first column and indent the subsequent word, as in:

#ifdef FIRST
#  include "first.h"
#else
#  include "second.h"
#endif