Whitesmiths style in VS Code (C language) - c

Question

I just started using Visual Studio Code. In my company they use Whitesmiths indentation style, but I cannot find a way to set it on VSC.
I'm programming in C, so I installed the C/C++ plugin. In this, the "Indent: Braces" option looks like the one for me, but it does not seem to work.
My json looks like this:
"C_Cpp.vcFormat.indent.braces": true,
"editor.detectIndentation": false,
"editor.tabSize": 3,
i set detect.Indentation to false, because i don't want it to interfere with indent.braces.
This is the user json. I did not modify the workspace nor the folder settings.
However, my code still looks like this
void main()
{
if(condition)
{
do something
}
else
{
whatever
}
}
while it should look like this
void main()
{
if(condition)
{
do something
}
else
{
whatever
}
}
what am I missing? Is there a way to set this from the VSC settings without using the plugin?

Answer 1

this post is for c# but it worked for me using the visual studio c++ formatter:
Visual Studio Code custom indentation style
my full .json file:
{
"[c]": {
"editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-vscode.cpptools"
},
"editor.autoClosingQuotes": "never",
"editor.autoClosingBrackets": "never",
"workbench.list.automaticKeyboardNavigation": false,
"workbench.settings.openDefaultKeybindings": true,
"update.enableWindowsBackgroundUpdates": false,
"update.mode": "manual",
"C_Cpp.formatting": "vcFormat",
"C_Cpp.vcFormat.indent.braces": true
}

Answer 2

PFE32 is an ancient editor that will indent in that style. The much newer Code::Blocks editor will handle it as well. Use Astyle to reformat to that style.
By the way, this is the style used with the original Whitesmith's tool chain. It was the first commercially available C compiler. This is the style that God uses when he writes in C. It is not ugly. It is correct, proper for the Backus-Naur definition of the language. It is pretty, just like me. ;-D