[TxMt] Re: convert tabs to spaces

Sean Allen sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com
Thu Jul 10 13:04:45 UTC 2008


It does have soft tabs set.

If the action I am seeing is to be expected, then good.
It certainly wasnt what I was expecting.

On Jul 10, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Chris Rebert wrote:

> Double-check that the "Tab-size" pop-up menu in the status bar has the
> "Soft tabs (Spaces)" option checked.
> But besides that, yes, TextMate appears to be smart enough to
> logically treat soft tabs as tabs even though they are physically
> composed of spaces.
>
> - Chris
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Sean Allen <sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com 
> > wrote:
>> i've noticed an interesting phenomena where i run convert tabs to
>> spaces on an entire buffer,
>> go to a line that had tabs, hit the delete button and it sometimes
>> takes me back a full tab stop
>> seemingly indicating the the conversion of tabs to spaces wasn't  
>> done.
>>
>> would this be the case or is there some trickery involved that just
>> makes it look that way?
>>
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