Suppress paragraph indentation after tcblisting environment?

Question

I am writing a document containing lost of snippets of code, and I've defined an environment using tcblisting from the tcolorbox package to do this. The environments work fine.

What I want to do though is to suppress paragraph indentation afterwards so that

\begin{mycode}
   lots of stuff using my environment
\end{mycode}

which shows that Santa Claus \emph{does} exist,\ldots

has the effect of not indenting "which shows that..." I understand that the after parameter is what I need here; this is described in the tcolorbox manual (for v3.12) in section 3.12 (page 62). However, I can't get the result I want; for example after={\par\baselineskip\parindent=0pt} doesn't work.

I can go through and put a \noindent at all the places, but surely there's a way I can do it in the environment definition itself?

Is there a simple way to do this?

Could you provide some code we can compile, starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document}? It'll get you answers much faster than providing code-snippets. — Werner, Jan 20 '15 at 02:16
With a blank line before the text you are signalling a new paragraph. If you do not put a blank line there then latex environments such as verbatim or enumerate would not indent the text. It appears tcblisting doesn't implement that which is a shame, but Harish's answer provides a workaround — David Carlisle, Jan 20 '15 at 12:21
Yes, I think using a blank line and expecting no indentation is asking a bit much, so Harish's approach, with a % for readability, seems the way to go. Thanks very much! — Alasdair, Jan 21 '15 at 00:48

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '15 at 02:35

Use after={\par\vspace{\baselineskip}\noindent} and then

\end{code}
which shows that Santa Claus \emph{does} exist,\ldots

(no blank line after \end{code}) or

\end{code}
%
which shows that Santa Claus \emph{does} exist,\ldots

if you need that blank for readability.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{listings}

\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.95}

\newtcblisting{code}[1][]{
  width=\linewidth,
  enhanced,
  boxrule=0.4pt,
  colback=light-gray,
  listing only,
  top=0pt,
  bottom=0pt,
  listing options={
    basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,
    language=python,
    showstringspaces=false,
  },
  after={\par\vspace{\baselineskip}\noindent}  %% do you really need \vspace{\baselineskip}?
}

\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

\begin{code}
for i in range(n):
    print('i = ', i)
\end{code}
%
which shows that Santa Claus \emph{does} exist,\ldots    

\end{document}

enter image description here

Many thanks! I think I was in error expecting a black line with no indentation; I will take your advice and put a % sign there for readability, as well as adjusting my after= parameter. — Alasdair, Jan 21 '15 at 00:47

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

A bit old, but as I just thought about this problem in another context. You can try this to suppress the parindent even if there is an empty line after the code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\makeatletter
\let@oridoenpe@doendpe
\def@newdoendpe{%
     @endpetrue
     \def\par{@restorepar\global\let@doendpe@oridoenpe
              \clubpenalty@clubpenalty
              \everypar
               {{\setbox\z@\lastbox}%
                \everypar{}}\par@endpefalse}%
     \everypar{{\setbox\z@\lastbox}%
                \everypar{}@restorepar@endpefalse
               }}
\newcommand\usenewdoendpe{\global\let@doendpe@newdoendpe}
\newcommand\useendparenv{\par@endparenv}
\makeatother
\tcbuselibrary{listings}
\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.95}
\newtcblisting{code}[1][]{
  after={\usenewdoendpe\smallskip\useendparenv}  %% 
}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
\begin{code}
for i in range(n):
    print('i = ', i)
\end{code}
which shows that Santa Claus \emph{does} exist,\ldots
\begin{code}
for i in range(n):
    print('i = ', i)
\end{code}
which shows that Santa Claus \emph{does} exist,\ldots
\end{document}

Edit

It won't work for breakable boxes (even if they are not broken).

Suppress paragraph indentation after tcblisting environment?

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