On 6/19/06, C. Ed Felt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Fellow Eclipse users, (you can ignore this email if you are not one):
Eclipse is great and has all the goodies I need in an open source, code
completing, block collapsing IDE. I finally have it fully configured
for and would like to use it for PHP, Python, etc. But there is one
fatal flaw: I can't seem to find a way to change tab to spaces. I need
specifically to change tab to three spaces, (so that when I type tab, I
get three spaces). The code is much cleaner this way and there are many
current and possible future clients who require this. I have tried both
Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2 and do not find this feature. Please tell me how to
change this setting, or, if possible an easy work around. Please don't
tell me about the "Displayed tab width" setting. This is for display
only and does not effect the actual text. Sorry if I sound upset, it's
because I am frustrated with this huge oversight and/or sloppily
excluded feature.
-Ed Felt
This feature has existed since the original release of the IBM
code-base years ago. The feature is JDT specific (or CDT specific).
So it's posible that the PHP Development Tools plugin doesn't have
this code-style feature.
To enable this for JDT you do the following:
Window -> Preferences
Java -> Code Style -> Formatter -> New
The you can then define your own code style rules (including using
spaces instead of tabs).
To do this for the PHP or Python plugins (which I've never used),
you'll need to look around in the PHP or Python section of the
Perferences dialog. If the Code Style node doesn't exist, feel free
to contribute the code that would fix this deficiency in the
PHP/Python plugins... Or just run a sed script that converts tabs to
spaces for now :-).
-Bryan
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