On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:44:11 +0500 "Walery Studennikov" despairr@gmail.com wrote:
In the Edit->Preferences dialog, on the Editor tab: Under Indentation first set Width for "indent-width". Then set Type to 'Tabs and Spaces', and below that set 'Hard tab width' for "display-tab-width".
Well, I set: 'Width' -> 4, 'Type' -> 'Tabs and Spaces', ''Hard tab width' -> 8,
But when I press 'Tab' key, cursor indents to 8 characters. If I press 'Backspace' after that, it removes 4 characters.
So, I still can't set different display and indent tab widths :(
Does the status bar say T/S for tabs & spaces, rather than TAB or SP?
Also check the indent/unindent keyboard shortcuts - by default these are ctrl-i, ctrl-u. Only with the hidden pref use_tab_to_indent set can you also indent with Tab.
The way it works for me is that indenting/unindenting changes the indent by 4 spaces, but the total indent is made up out of leading tabs plus some spaces (once the indent is big enough), the tabs being equivalent to 8 spaces.
E.g. press indent 3 times - equivalent of 12 spaces: <TAB><SP><SP><SP><SP>
Unindent twice - so total is now 4: <SP><SP><SP><SP>
Regards, Nick