[TxMt] Spaces instead of Tabs

Dougal dougal at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 18:27:34 UTC 2007


Try the soft tabs option, at the bottom of the window (right of the
gear menu and the edit-mode).

Once you have that, try Text -> Convert -> Spaces to Tabs   or Tabs to Spaces.


On Dec 30, 2007 1:18 PM, Ulai Beekam <ulaibeekam at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> When typing the space key in my code in TextMate, how can I let
> TextMate use a particular number of spaces instead of that tab character?
> I would like to always use 2 spaces instead of the tab character.
>
> Also, how can I auto-format code that already have tabs (or tabs replaced by, say, 4 spaces)
> to format it the way I want it (say, tabs replaced by 2 spaces)? Microsoft Visual Studio allowed me to do that. Does TextMate provide such facilities? (Guess I could always turn to regular expressions to fix such stuff.)
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