On 27.12.2004, at 21:05, Patrick Kelly wrote:
I'd like to be able to set my "indentation level" to 4 and leave the tab stops at 8. That is, if I hit my tab key the cursor should move as if my tabs stops are set at 4 (any any spaces required should be added). If there are any actual tab characters in the file, the file should display as if I had selected 8 as my tab size. (Basically this is because I edit files that other people have edited using emacs which "intelligently" uses tabs where it can to fill in sequences of 8 spaces.)
One uses tabs *or* spaces to indent, not some mixture of the two -- that's madness. People speak so highly of emacs; it can't possibly force this behavior. It must be possible to tell it not to do that. And I don't see any need for TextMate to provide workarounds for other people's broken editor configurations. Adding a feature to TextMate to deal with this lunacy just makes for more-confusing preferences and application bloat for I would hope the majority of users whose coworkers have their editors set up reasonably.