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As a previous bug for 2.1 stream has been marked resolved, I'm reopening the issue for 3.0. From the original bug report (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25802): I'd like to see the tab-out functionality expanded to include parentheses. Tabs (as a spacer) don't have any utility for me inside parentheses, and since using the t-o-o-q, I found myself hitting the tab key to get out of my paren block once out of the quotes. For example, tabbing ([\t]) moves the cursor to the caret: logger.debug("foo[\t]" ) ^ hitting the tab key her should move the cursor here: logger.debug("foo"[\t]) ^ If you think of the java editor as a sort of complex form, tab navigation makes more sense. To use VM as an example, while you're free to move about the form using cursor keys, the most efficient way to move to the next logical edit point is using the tab key. While the java editor is a much more complex form, with the inclusion of a powerful and flexible code formatter in 3.0, the tab key is wasted as formatting tool. Tabbing inside quotes doesn't make sense (unless it's replaced by '\t', which might a related enhancement), and any tab in the editor spaces gets overwritten by the formatter. Once you use it for even a short time, hitting tab to get to the next logical edit point becomes second nature. For further comments and arguments, see the predecessor this bug, mentioned above.
