Thanks bernie.  Somehow, I don't associate tab setting with font selection.

I changed the setting as you pointed out and new documents now Shift
as I set it.

And I discovered I need to use Cmd-T to invoke the Font chooser on
each existing documents and set the tabs or the old setting persists.

I wish the label on the "Editor Defaults" pane said "Default font and
tabs" or some such.


On 11/7/06, Bernie Estavillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At the bottom of the "Editor Defaults" preference pane, you can set
the default tab size by clicking on the "Set..." button. It will bring
up the font chooser with a field for tab width.

--bernie

On 11/7/06, David Eves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed 8.5.1 on my new work machine, MacBook Pro, OS X 10.4.8.
>
> When I start a new document, the tab size is set to 4. I have
> auto-expandtabs on and tabs are inserted as 4 spaces. I want it to be
> 2. After I set the tab size for a document by using Detab with a
> setting 2 it seems to stick for that document.
>
> After I set the Detab to 2 when I use Shift Left or Shift Right, it
> uses 4 spaces as the increment size.
>
> How do I set default tab size for all documents to be something other than 4?
>
> How do I get all the various Shift/Tab settings to be 2 by default?
>
> I searched on tab and shift in the preference search and didn't find
> anything that seemed to  be what I want.
>
>
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