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ben_josephs wrote:I know that problem.

Come the revolution, tabs in source files will be forbidden.

Right on, brother.

Can you set the tab width to 8, convert the tabs to spaces, then set the tab width to 4? Yes, I believe that would work but it might also make my fellow programmers and our source control system very unhappy by leading them to think that nearly every line in any program that I work on has been ...

The tab key usually is for inserting a tab, but you want to "indent more". Maybe you want to set the keyboard shortcut for EditIndentMore to be the tab key ... Thanks for the idea. EditIndentMore is not the command I'm looking for, but maybe there is one that I can assign to to the TAB key that ...

Yes, those are the two places I change the settings. Default tab spacing is set to 8, Indent size is set to 4, convert new tabs to spaces is checked, but convert existing tabs is not checked. There seem to be three actions controlled by only two tab size settings. The layout of an existing document ...

For compatibility of formatting with a large body of existing documents, I have to set the tab stops to 8. However, I would rather move only 4 characters each time that I press the TAB key, but can't see a way to set that. I have "Indent" set to 4 and that works to increase or decrease the ...