Control tabs and spaces, including width, in text editors

[stevemessick]

No apparent way to change tab from tabs to spaces, or control 4 or 2.

For example, I'm editing an XML file "as text", highlighted code and hit tab. Looks like an actual tab was inserted.

I'd like to control tabs/spaces for text files (until we have formal XML file editing)

Thanks!

-- sethladd@
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Editor: 0.2.1_r14167 (2012-10-28)
OS: Mac OS X - x86_64 (10.8.2)
JVM: 1.6.0_37

SDK installed: true
Dartium installed: true

[stevemessick]

Sorry about that Seth. We've fixed the xml editor indenting twice. It may be that your case is actually new. I'm not sure replace-edit follows the same path as insert-edit.

[sethladd]

No worries Steve, glad we recorded the bug. Let me know if you need me to repro something or be more specific. Happy to help.

[devoncarew]

@seth, we do have an xml editor, and it does handle tabs the way you're expecting. When you use the open as text command, that opens the file in a vanilla text editor (org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.TextEditor), which has no special tab handling.

I'm marking this as resolved, but please re-open if the xml editor isn't working as you'd expect.

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[sethladd]

Sorry, I think my subject was too specific. I'd love a way to control tabs and spaces in any and all text files.

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[sethladd]

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[clayberg]

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[danrubel]

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[clayberg]

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