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Formatting indentation for blocks

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Description

Imagine the following rules

Block:
	'block' name=ID ':'
	BEGIN
		blockStatements+=BlockStatement*
	END
	'endblock'
;

terminal BEGIN: 'synthetic:BEGIN';
terminal END: 'synthetic:END';

I tried many things in order to format that code so that every statement inside the block is indented, but I cannot make it work. I tried block.interior[indent], which I would have thought should do the trick.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the formatting behavior with the grammar shown in the issue, focusing on the Block and blockStatements rules and the attempted block.interior[indent] configuration. Read the formatter documentation and relevant implementation to determine how indentation for synthetic BEGIN and END terminals is handled; done means statements inside the block are consistently indented.

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Assessment

Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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