On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:

Ah. Penny drops! So is there a way to get the tab-key-inserts-spaces behaviour I'm after?

Ah, tab key does insert spaces when in soft tabs mode. It is just that textmate will, when navigating with the arrow keys, treat any sequence of "specified number of spaces for tab" spaces as one character. Try leaving 7 characters on a soft-tabs-3spaces setting, and try to use the arrow keys to move past it.

Haris