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Spaces Instead of Tabs In Eclipse Indigo PDT Not Working [message #660649]

Sun, 20 March 2011 12:43

PS Craig
Messages: 4
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

OK - I've searched the forums and not found anything regarding this problem.

I am using Eclipse Indigo PDT (But I had the same problem before in Helios).

I have set all tabs to display as 4 spaces and it's not working, Eclipse is still entering tabs!

I have the following settings, am I missing something?:

General > Editors > Text Editors

Set Display tab width to 4
Tick Insert spaces for tabs
Tick Show Print Margin
Set Print Margin Column to 120

General > Workspace

Set Text File Encoding to UTF-8
Set New Text File Delimiter to Unix

PHP > Code Style > Formatter

Set Tab Policy to Spaces
Set Indentation size to 4

PHP > Editor > Save Actions

Tick Remove trailing whitespace
Check All Lines

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Re: Spaces Instead of Tabs In Eclipse Indigo PDT Not Working [message #660654 is a reply to message #660649]

Sun, 20 March 2011 13:02

PS Craig
Messages: 4
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

After a further search I've found an unanswered post, so it seems that I'm not the only one with this problem:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=94871

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Re: Spaces Instead of Tabs In Eclipse Indigo PDT Not Working [message #663283 is a reply to message #660649]

Mon, 04 April 2011 10:30

PS Craig
Messages: 4
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

This is a bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=326250

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Re: Spaces Instead of Tabs In Eclipse Indigo PDT Not Working [message #855290 is a reply to message #663283]

Tue, 24 April 2012 13:25

Bo Zimmerman
Messages: 1
Registered: April 2012

Junior Member

That is NOT the same bug as the user above is reporting (I'm having the same problem). The official bug is about tabs inside Strings. The problem I'm seeing is tabs inside Code.

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Re: Spaces Instead of Tabs In Eclipse Indigo PDT Not Working [message #993197 is a reply to message #660654]

Sun, 23 December 2012 13:26

Brian Detweiler
Messages: 1
Registered: December 2012

Junior Member

You can count me as another person with this issue.

The problem seems to be on auto-indent. Pressing the tab key will insert spaces. But pressing enter after, say, an if-statement which auto-indents it will insert tabs. This is super annoying.

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Re: Spaces Instead of Tabs In Eclipse Indigo PDT Not Working [message #996986 is a reply to message #993197]

Thu, 03 January 2013 05:47

Marta Musik
Messages: 1
Registered: January 2013

Junior Member

There are two settings affecting spaces vs tabs. One is where you mentioned:
"Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text editors -> Insert spaces for tabs".
The other one is located in
"Java -> Code Style -> Formatter". In profile edition window "tab policy" can be chosen and also "use spaces to indent wrapped lines" can be checked. In my case that fixed the behavior you describes.

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