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Bug 350048 - CDT editor not respecting "Insert spaces for tabs" preference
Summary: CDT editor not respecting "Insert spaces for tabs" preference
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 206776
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-editor (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Anton Leherbauer CLA
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Reported: 2011-06-22 09:04 EDT by Jonathan Watt CLA
Modified: 2011-06-22 09:45 EDT (History)
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Description Jonathan Watt CLA 2011-06-22 09:04:35 EDT 
Under Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors, I have "Insert spaces for tabs" checked. In any .cpp file I'm editing using Eclipse the auto-complete functionality doesn't seem to honor that setting though. If I type "void func() {" in the global scope of the .cpp file and hit Enter, Eclipse will insert a line break, a tab, a line break and a closing "}". Instead of the tab, it should be inserting spaces.
Comment 1 Jonathan Watt CLA 2011-06-22 09:05:39 EDT 
Oh, and another thing it's not honoring is the "Displayed tab width" from that same preference pane. I have it set to 2, but the tabs that it's inserting are indenting by 4.
Comment 2 Anton Leherbauer CLA 2011-06-22 09:13:37 EDT 
CDT overrides the text editor settings in favor of more advanced code style settings.  You'll find the overriding settings in the C/C++ > Code Style preference page.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 206776 ***
Comment 3 Jonathan Watt CLA 2011-06-22 09:45:39 EDT 
Ah, I see. Thanks Anton.