How does having the desired indent of the code fall after =v make that issue go away? It might look lined up under the current circumstances but will be all jumbled for someone else.

I suppose you are saying that your way will at least ascribe all the lines to a verbatim paragraph, even though they may be indented wrong in the final presentation, as preferable to not identifying them properly at all.

OK, how about after the =code initiates things, it will take all lines until another directive or zero-leading whitespace. It won't worry if the indention matches the initial line, but will clamp at zero after it removes the expected amount.