Bug 44700

Summary:	Set editor tab width per package fragment root (e.g. for attached JDK source)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Ross Judson <eclipse>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	bartoki, didierloiseau+eclipse, eclipse, eclipse, f_joseph.klein, mail, markus.kell.r, ryenus
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	fix candidate

Description Ross Judson

2003-10-11 15:15:53 EDT

With Eclipse we are often working with code from many people, and the tab 
settings used by those people aren't always the same.  It would be useful to 
be able to designate, at the project level or at the package level, a tab 
setting.  All JDK source uses 8 char width, for example, but very few people 
use this setting themselves.  I personally use the visually appealing but 
oddball tab width of 3.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2003-10-13 04:35:12 EDT

The setting should probably be per package fragment root.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2005-12-05 06:48:27 EST

*** Bug 119162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Sebastian Bauer

2005-12-05 07:10:12 EST

Please keep in mind, that I also need this functionallity for other plugins, e.g. for CDT. So this feature should be not too JDT specific.

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2005-12-05 07:16:32 EST

How do you need it in the CDT scenario? Is per project really good enough there?

Comment 5 Sebastian Bauer

2005-12-05 07:34:44 EST

For my current needs, it would be enough.

Originally I thought adding this as an option for the Info section within the project properties and/or folder properties would be a good idea (similar to the text encoding stuff).

Comment 6 Dani Megert

2007-06-22 09:59:16 EDT

Get rid of deprecated state.

Comment 7 Dani Megert

2008-02-15 02:51:10 EST

*** Bug 219045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 ryenus '

2008-02-15 03:35:55 EST

Thanks to Daniel, the Bug 219045 I've just filed can be treated as a duplicate, but I doubt if only Tab width should be context (package/project) specific, for viewing library source, that's fine, but considering project specific code style, I think only Tab width is not fine.

Comment 9 Didier Loiseau

2011-07-29 12:06:01 EDT

This enhancement request is so old although it just seems to be a little preference to add :-P

It's such a shame to browse the JDK source code when your displayed tab width is not 8 spaces :(

I wish I had the knowledge to hack Eclipse…

Comment 10 Markus Keller

2012-09-26 13:19:02 EDT

*** Bug 390445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Dani Megert

2013-04-25 02:56:17 EDT

*** Bug 406466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Dani Megert

2013-10-09 06:44:02 EDT

*** Bug 418937 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***