Lua indentation is broken #36

Activity

1. yeskunall commented on Jan 8, 2026

   

   yeskunall

   on Jan 8, 2026

   Last edited by yeskunall

   Member

   More actions

   @Umckgil acknowledging your message on Plain. Feel free to ping me here once you have the GIFs ready and I’ll be happy to take a look at this issue.

   👍React with 👍1Reacted by Umckgil
2. Fringale commented on Feb 26, 2026

   

   Fringale

   on Feb 26, 2026

   Contributor

   More actions

   @Umckgil I don't know if you've resolved your issue, but if not: I see you have explicitly set the formatter as being the language server ("formatter": "language_server"), but have you also overridden the language server default formatting configuration (format.defaultConfig.indent_style / indent_size / tab_width / continuation_indent / etc.)?

   As I see in your gifs that it seems to autoformat with 4 spaces, which is LuaLS' (actually, EmmyLuaCodeStyle's) default formatting.

   For reference:

   • Lua extension formatting doc
   • LuaLS formatting doc
   • The list of format settings from EmmyLuaCodeStyle
3. Umckgil commented on Feb 26, 2026

   

   Umckgil

   on Feb 26, 2026

   Author

   More actions

   hi @Fringale, yes most of the issues resolve if 4 spaces is used, thats what I did as a workaround.

   however auto indentation in conditional statements is still distracting:
   

   I tried modifying defaultConfig values in .luarc.json, no luck. please note that this behavior wasn't always like this.
4. Fringale commented on Feb 26, 2026

   

   Fringale

   on Feb 26, 2026

   Contributor

   More actions

   Ah understood, it seems there are two different things at play here:

   1. Regarding the wrong indent size when setting "tab_size": 3 and "formatter": "language_server", as per the 2nd gif in your initial post: try putting this in your .luarc.json (or settings file) so that it matches the 3-char space indent defined in Zed

   "format.enable": true,
   "format.defaultConfig": {
   	"indent_size": "3"
   }
   

   2. Regarding the initial wrong indent for else/elseif (indented) and for the first line after (not indented): that's weird indeed and I have the same issue, I would say this has to do with the extension tree-sitter queries managing indents.
5. Umckgil commented on Feb 26, 2026

   

   Umckgil

   on Feb 26, 2026

   Author

   More actions

   thanks yeah that does solve the 3 sized indent issue.

   for the auto indentation issues, I tried to play around with indents.scm but couldnt improve.
6. Fringale commented on Mar 1, 2026

   

   Fringale

   on Mar 1, 2026

   Contributor

   More actions

   I opened PR #42 to fix the elseif / else indentation issue.
7. Umckgil commented on Mar 1, 2026

   

   Umckgil

   on Mar 1, 2026

   Author

   More actions

   thanks. tested it. seems resolve it at least for me

   👍React with 👍1Reacted by Fringale
8. MrSubidubi

   closed this as completedin #42on Mar 20, 2026
9. MrSubidubi

   added a commit that references this issue on Mar 20, 2026

   Fix elseif / else indentation and support incomplete structures (#42)

   ...

   4f71041