[Bug 282234] Re: kate ignores settings for TAB

[wateenellende]

Tuukka Verho wrote:
> This is because in Kate the tab key indents instead of inserting a tab
> character. If your indentation width is smaller than tab width, Kate
> inserts spaces. If indentation width is larger than tab width,
> indentation is done with a combination of tabs and spaces.
> 
> You get the desired behaviour if you set the tab width to the same as
> the indentation width.
> 
> I agree that this is very confusing. One should be able to set 'indent
> with tabs' and indentation width would then be determined by tab width.
> 

What a marvelous user interface design choice! I see the developers took 
the precaution of not putting the two settings in the same panel, lest 
anyone might find out about a way to make kate behave as desired.

Wait, I've got another great idea: we should let users enter the desired 
widths by tapping morse-code on the space bar! Or maybe we could force 
them to use vi...

pffffffffff

I really like kate and I've used it for years, but a) this change was 
really annoying; and b) the solution is sufficiently obscure that I 
couldn't find it. In the mean time I switched to another editor (geany) 
that can easily be configured to do what I want, and have no intention 
of switching back.

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kate ignores settings for TAB
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282234
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