How do I treat spaces as tabs in SublimeText?

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I want my files to be saved as 4 spaces per tab. However, when navigating through the file, I want 4 spaces to be navigated over as if it was a tab. How do I do that?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '13 at 23:33

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Set tab_size equal to 4.

// The number of spaces a tab is considered equal to
"tab_size": 4,`

and set to true

// Set to true to insert spaces when tab is pressed
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": false,

answered Sep 21 '13 at 23:33

AGS

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That doesn't work. When I navigate over the spaces, the editor still treats them as spaces. – theanine Sep 22 '13 at 03:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '13 at 08:09

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I think there's no way to do that without plugins.

I personally use custom binding for navigation and almost never use the arrows, and use command/ctrl/alt + left/right arrows to navigate by words, when you'll get used to this, you'll become very productive. You can then ctrl+right arrow to get from the beginning of the line to the first indented character.

answered Sep 25 '13 at 08:09

Sergey Telshevsky

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But if you start at the beginning of the line, doing ctrl+right arrow goes to the end of the first word. – theanine Dec 01 '13 at 21:39
Sorry, I may be wrong about that, I'm currently on OS X and the keys used to skip indents are `alt+right`. I will see how it's done on windows. Are you still interested in this behaviour? If so I may consider writing a plugin for you – Sergey Telshevsky Dec 02 '13 at 07:58
Yes, I am still interested. That would be great. – theanine Dec 02 '13 at 17:30

How do I treat spaces as tabs in SublimeText?

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