Sublime Text 2 tab_size setting not correctly activated

Question

I have the following in my user/Preferences.sublime-settings

{
    "tab_size": 2,
}

And most of the time it works. But once in a while I open a ruby file, and it jumped back to 4 spaces. I'm wondering if there is some bug or slight difference in opening a file that could change this?

Having trouble tracking this down. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

You'll want to add:

"detect_indentation": false

This is on by default and ST is trying to be smart detecting the indentation of your current file, overloading the user or syntax specific default.