[TxMt] Newbee Q: Hard tabs vs. soft tabs

[Rob McBroom]

On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Garance A Drosehn wrote:


> What I want is my tab-intent to be a soft-tab (using blanks) at 4
> spaces, but I also want hard-tabs (using the actual tab character) to
> be used for 8 spaces.  So, if I tab once I want four spaces, if I tab
> twice then I want a single tab character, and with three tabs I want a
> tab-character followed by four spaces.
>

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can have  
TextMate do this for you just by altering settings.

You could probably create a command that goes through your document  
and replaces 8 spaces with a tab character. To get even fancier, you  
could probably create a command that does this and saves the document  
and bind this command to ⌘S, so when you save the file, it gets  
formatted the way you want.

I'm not sure if TextMate will let you use Tab as a key equivalent for  
a command, but if so, you could make it even more automated (probably  
what you want) by having it do a search/replace on the current line  
every time you hit the Tab key. This might screw up the cursor  
position though.

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Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>
I didn't "switch" to Apple... my OS did.



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Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>
I didn't "switch" to Apple... my OS did.