On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:59 AM, DrBigFresh wrote:

> How can I turn set BBEdit to not use tabs, but to use spaces. I'm
> currently a coda user, and they have a setting which is basically
> 'Don't use tabs, use X spaces'
>
> Does this exist in BBEdit? I know I can entab it, but I was hoping for
> something that I could turn on in the preferences.

To change a single document, click the "Text Options" icon in the  
toolbar and enable the "Auto-Expand Tabs" option. This expands all tab  
key presses to a number of spaces. To change the number of spaces,  
open the font window with View -> "Text Display" -> "Show Fonts" and  
set the tab width at the bottom. To convert tabs already existing in  
your document, use the Text -> Detab... command.

To use spaces as the default for all new documents, go to Preferences - 
 > Editor Defaults and set your default font and number of spaces per  
tab. Then enable the "Auto-expand tabs" checkbox that appears on the  
same preference pane.

Hope this helps.

-Dennis


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