[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Confusing meaning of the Auto-indent modes (#2696)

[elextr]

Totally agree the names are not great, but so far nobody has a better suggestion that they PR.  I don't apologise for requiring the users to lookup the manual, its not realistic to expect a name short enough to fit on dialogs to do that.

I don't personally think `Block` and `Block with brace alignment` actually do any better, and "brace alignment" is misleading since it aligns to the indent of the line not of the brace, and in fact its "Block" that actually aligns braces if its used as intended (but that alignment is not enforced).

Maybe we should call them `Mode 1`, `Mode 2`, and `Mode 3` with a note to look at the manual for what they mean, at least nobody can then try to glean functionality from the name :grin:



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