Code formatting preset - Add ability to override settings set by preset

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Summary

Edit 2026-03-07:

• This is a duplicate of 2017-03-07 "Add ability to inherit settings": Add ability to inherit settings PSScriptAnalyzer#791
• With current limitations of the formatter in PSScriptAnalyzer, "Stroustrup" is effectively "OTBS with else on new line".

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A lot of people including me like OTBS with else on a new line.

• There is no One True Brace Style PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle#177 (comment)

To achieve this with vscode-powershell one have to use "powershell.codeFormatting.preset": "Custom" and set all formatting rules one by one.

It'd be nice with the ability to override any setting set by a preset. If this is not possible or feasible maybe a new preset can be added to PSScriptAnalyzer:

• New formatting preset: OTBS with else on a new line PSScriptAnalyzer#2045

Proposed Design

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[andyleejordan]

Ah I see what you mean, I'll mark this as Up For Grabs. I'd take a PR if it can do this reasonably suscinctly.

[JustinGrote]

These "presets" are a PSES concept and not a scriptanalyzer concept. They are defined here:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices/blob/42d13997e346de4601a08b7ab04a5207656ae1dd/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Services/Workspace/LanguageServerSettings.cs#L218-L247

So a PR could be fairly straightforward to just add a new entry to the enum with the appropriate settings. Changing the switch to an exhausive pattern matching would also help catch any net-new issues.