Tab about codemirror-v1 HOT 6 CLOSED

Just be aware that on IE (at least 6 and 7, haven't tested 8), the white-space: pre and white-space: pre-wrap styles are so utterly broken in a contentEditable document that tabs are not going to work. I also remember other browsers having some issues, but those may have been fixed in the meantime. I'd certainly be okay with a patch that adds an optional leave-tabs-alone mode, if it works in at least a few browsers.

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This is a show stopper for me. Every time you edit any file with hard-tabs it changes the entire file by replacing them with spaces. I'm not really sure it should ever be an "option" — I guess I just couldn't live with an editor (browser or otherwise) that changed everyone's code.

I'll probably try fixing this in my branch, I'll let you know how it goes.

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Looks like another fizzled attempt. It seems browser vendors did not think about tabs very much when they were implementing designMode/contentEditable. On the bright side, CodeMirror 2 is more tab-friendly.

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Quick question. Is there a way to control tabs in version2? Automatic indenting does it with 2 spaces, however pressing Tab does 8. This is with Firefox 4... not sure about other browsers.

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Browsers fix tabs to 8 spaces, and CodeMirror has to use native browser tabs. However, you can set indentUnit to something other than 2, and you can set indentWithTabs to have it convert any leading multiples of 8 spaces to tabs when indenting.

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Sorry, just realized that I was in the wrong repo. tabMode: 'indent' seems to be the thing I wanted.
Thanks for the library. It's fantastic.

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