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When I highlight a block of text in Eclipse, and press TAB, it inserts a tab at the head of each line. I want it to insert 4 spaces instead.
I need to do this on a files with a custom extension: *.shpaml
I have PyDev installed.
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Select all, then do Ctrl + I . The advantage of this method over selecting some lines, then pressing Tab , is that it is much faster to do Ctrl + A then Ctrl + I , than tabbing lines at a time.
Although auto-indentation is not a feature of PyDev because of the language design you should be able to indent with a simple tab. Just select the lines you want to indent and press Tab. If you want to unindent lines you have to press Shift+Tab.
I'm considering that *.shpaml is opened with the PyDev editor...
There are 2 preferences related to that:
In window > preferences > PyDev > Editor, you can choose 'replace tabs with spaces when typing?' and in that same page 'assume tab spacing when file contains tabs?'.
So, probably you have both checked and your *.shpaml has some tab in it, which makes PyDev work with tabs... if you uncheck the 'assume tab spacing when file contains tabs?', it should do what you want.
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You should be able to set "spaces instead of tabs" here:
Eclipse, Window, Preferences, General, Editors, Text Editors,
Insert spaces for tabs=Y
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