YAML (Ansible file type) autoindentation doesn't work

[life5ign]

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Issue Type: Bug

YAML files and Ansible files do not autoindent.

VS Code version: Code 1.66.2 (dfd34e8, 2022-04-11T07:49:24.808Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.13.0-7620-generic
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[aeschli]

Can you describe more what kind of auto indentation you expect?
Please provide a small code sample with steps, what you see, and what you expect.

[life5ign]

Hello, for Ansible language mode, which I have configured, I expect this line:

- name: test

to have the cursor indent two spaces (below the "n" of "name") when I press Enter, which it doesn't.

I then also expect this example to indent two spaces from the start of the "d" character in "directive", which it doesn't, when I press Enter:

- name: test
  directive:

In other words, for Ansible language mode in vscode , I expect the special - name: test structure to always be followed by an indentation. Technically, in pure yaml, that's a list element with dicrionary, which I would expect to be followed by an auto "-" in normal yaml, with no indentation, meaning I wanted to continue the list, but not in ansible.

Then for any dictionary following that, I expect an autoindent every time only a dictionary key is specified (the value will be indented on the next line), but no additional autoindentation if a value is specified after a key (in this case, the cursor should align with the beginning of the previous key, since the next line will represent the next item in the dictionary, which already works).

[aeschli]

Let's track this in redhat-developer/vscode-yaml#279 as they are they are the YAML experts.