I saw a few reports on real tab setting. In most cases, users were not clear with meaning of "real tabs" and "smart tabs" setting. People come and see how a true bugreport should look like :)
PSPad version 4.5.0 and 4.5.1 (tried both), English [x] Real tabs, [x] Trim trailing spaces Description: When inserting or rewriting somewhere in the middle, everything works as planned. Tabs are inserted according to the "real tabs" setting. When writing the first non-whitespace character in a line, the start of line is converted to tabs. Spaces having no visual influence before a tab character are removed. When pressing tab at end of line having at least one non-whitespace character, spaces are added regardless of the "real tabs" setting. My opinion: The root of the problem seems to be in the way spaces are trimmed at end of current line. If trailing spaces are not trimmed, real tabs work as they should. I guess an easy way to solve the problem is to trim terminating spaces only when the cursor leaves the line, not sooner. Do I remember it correctly that earlier versions offered this late trimming? I liked it. Has it been removed? Why? I don't think it harmed anyone. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,30371,30823> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
