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How to turn off hard tabs? [message #234765]

Fri, 12 June 2009 07:24

sasuke

Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi everyone,

I could not turn off hard tabs in Eclipse CDT IDE. I did check the option:
"Insert Spaces for tabs" in Window->Preferences->Text Editor, but it did
not work, because after that I came back to the editor, pressed the Tab
key and then used the arrow keys to move the cursor around and the editor
was still in 'hard tabs' mode.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Sasuke

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Re: How to turn off hard tabs? [message #234859 is a reply to message #234765]

Mon, 15 June 2009 08:09

Anton Leherbauer

Messages: 490
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

sasuke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I could not turn off hard tabs in Eclipse CDT IDE. I did check the
> option: "Insert Spaces for tabs" in Window->Preferences->Text Editor,
> but it did not work, because after that I came back to the editor,
> pressed the Tab key and then used the arrow keys to move the cursor
> around and the editor was still in 'hard tabs' mode.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sasuke
>

You can change this for the C/C++ Editor on the C/C++ > Code Style
preference page.

--
Anton Leherbauer
Wind River Systems, Austria
CDT Committer - http://www.eclipse.org/cdt

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Re: How to turn off hard tabs? [message #234920 is a reply to message #234859]

Thu, 18 June 2009 03:07

sasuke

Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Thank you very much, Anton.

You solved my problem.

Best regards,

Sasuke

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Re: How to turn off hard tabs? [message #1729885 is a reply to message #234859]

Wed, 20 April 2016 02:21

Wayne Wang

Messages: 1
Registered: December 2015

Junior Member

Hi Anton,

But there still have problems with some text editors, when I edit a text file such "Makefile.am" (autotools configure file), the Tab key still works as "hard tabs" not in 'spaces'.
how can I fix this issue.

Thanks in advance!

Wayne

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