On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 11:02 -0600, C. Ed Felt 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.
Personally I think the display is all I need. If the file is left as tabs, then it doesn't matter about my personal preference as the source code will always look right according to my preference. > > -Ed Felt > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
