[MonoDevelop] Tabs to indent in text editor?

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj at novell.com> wrote:
> Dylan McCall wrote:
>> I recently moved a little Python project into the MonoDevelop 2.0
>> alphas. Fairly impressive stuff in here :)
>>
>> However, when I actually started working, I noticed something
>> horrifying. Any automatic indentation was being done with 4 spaces!
>> All of my earlier source code was indented with tabs. I prefer it that
>> way, and will continue to prefer it that way as long as text editors
>> require me to escape 4 characters to unindent. (In other words: If
>> it's going to quietly indent with spaces, why can't it make those 4
>> spaces feel like a single character?)
>>
>> The tabs vs. spaces flamewar is for another place, though. What I am
>> wondering is: How can I configure this? I found Text Style under
>> project and solution options, which lets me configure tab width in
>> spaces. It also lets me convert tabs to spaces (no thank you). Any way
>> to tell it "save some energy and indent with a single tab character
>> instead"?
>> For the time being I have had to turn off smart indenting, but that's
>> rather an ugly band-aid type solution.
>>
>
> just uncheck the option "convert tabs to spaces" and it'll work exactly
> the way you want, using a single tab for indenting.

The Python binding's author hardcoded spaces in its smart indenter.

http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/trunk/monodevelop/extras/PyBinding/PyBinding/PyBinding.Gui/PythonEditorIndentation.cs?view=markup

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com