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Disable/Modify class/struct attribute indentation in VCFormat

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Feature Request Feature: Code Formatting Language Service Visual Studio
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Description

Type: Feature Request

As the title says, there's the ability to disable access modifier indentation, but no such capability for attributes following the access modifier. The consequence is that styles like Google's where the indentation of access modifiers is 1 and the indentation of attributes following them is 2, is not possible to emulate using the VCFormat.
Please add this feature as this is a basic one to have for a formatter. You could go fancy with it in the end, but for the start just make it possible to ignore the indentation of the struct members relative to the access modifiers and so make it relative to the struct/class braces instead.

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Start by locating VCFormat's handling of access-modifier indentation and attributes or struct members. Implement the requested option so member indentation can be relative to the class or struct braces rather than the access modifier, then verify that both enabled and disabled indentation styles produce the expected formatting.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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