Jonathan Duncan wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, 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.
-Ed Felt
I am using the PHPeclipse plugin for Eclipse. I have a setting in my
preferences called "Insert spaces for tab (see Code Formatter
preference page". I get to it in my preferences window by going to:
-PHPeclipse Web Development
-PHP
-Typing (tab)
I am using Eclipse 3.1.1 on Mac OSX 10.3.9 with PHPeclipse version 1.1.8.
hth,
Jonathan
Jonathan,
Thanks for your help. I solved my Python issue with Pydev. I solved my
PHP issue by uninstalling whatever not very good php-ide I had installed
and installing PHPeclipse. Much better. Thanks for all the info on
Eclipse configuration from everyone. Thanks also to everyone else for
the unnecessary, sometimes slightly abrasive, yet entertaining comments.
-Ed Felt
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