VS replaces tabs by spaces

[ic2]

I often see that my tabs in VS like in front of comments change into spaces, e.g.

IF x==1 <tab><tab><tab><tab> // Here my comment
(All <tab> become groups of 4 spaces)

I switched
Text Editor > Advanced and "Use adaptive formatting off
and have Keep tabs, smart Indent set everywhere.

Reproducible: It (at least) ALWAYS happens when I copy a line (also in C#).

Is there any way to prevent this "space replacement"?

Dick

[Chris]

Hi Dick,

Is that on a regular prg file, or in a file associated with a form? I just now received a similar report for form related prg files, which I confirmed.

[ic2]

Hi Chris,

I always see it on regular code, like .prg or .cs files.

I've seen it mentioned in the Microsoft sites as well (also with "when will this ever be solved") but not so much lately. And as Robert didn't directly recognize it I thought I was maybe missing some setting (or at least: that's what I hope

Dick

[Chris]

Hi Dick,

That's strange, have never seen something like that. Can you please post a link to such a report about c#? Not seeing it myself in neither X# or c#, but this might give a hint on how to reproduce it.

[ic2]

Hello Chris,

https://developercommunity.visualstudio ... paces.html

Here it is posted with the Adaptive formatting (what where they thinking when they programmed this...) as solution, but that doesn't help.

https://developercommunity.visualstudio ... f-tab.html

Do you actually retain tabs when you copy and then paste a line ? For me all tabs are directly replaced with spaces in the pasted line.

Here's the search URL (5 pages with this problem)

https://developercommunity.visualstudio ... ad+of+tabs

Dick

[Chris]

Hi Dick,

Yeah, it works fine for me...maybe VS is trying to be nice to me to make me start using it

Seriously, I have never seen that... Does anybody else see this behavior guys? Any hint in order to reproduce it would be very much appreciated...

[FFF]

Do you actually retain tabs when you copy and then paste a line ? For me all tabs are directly replaced with spaces in the pasted line.

Hi Dick,
for you i started VS17, no customization at all, and tried on a simple winforms app. First, i have no clue, how to make whitespace visible, but i think one sees here, that my two starting tabs are retained.

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(OT: This "ScreenToGif" is a cool thing!)

[ic2]

Hello Karl, Chris,

That seems to work fine for you indeed Karl.But I've no idea what setting I have different.

Dick

[Chris]

(OT: This "ScreenToGif" is a cool thing!)

Very cool indeed! Which app did you use?

[FFF]

https://www.screentogif.com/

Really neat