Click on the arrow beside Editor to bring down the further categories for it.On mac it's simply Command+, (literally just hold command and the comma key) and on PC, well hopefully someone can edit to confirm but I imagine it's along the lines of control+p. This should set up all newly opened documents to insert 3 spaces when the Tab key is pressed instead of the default .įigured I would add this one in here because it was introduced to us by John Samuel during the 2010 Summer semester, for those of you taking INT322 as well. Type 2 for both Tab size: and Indent size:.Click the + beside All Languages (or whatever language you want).This should set up all newly opened documents to insert 2 spaces when the Tab key is pressed instead of the default .Ĭomfirmed to work for Visual Studio 2008/2010.

At The bottom right, click the blue underlined number beside the Tab size:.Make sure is selected in the rightmost list.Go to the Language Menu/Tab Settings tab.To change the default action of the tab key: This part uses Notepad++ v5.6.6 to set up tab spaces.

Auto indent notepad++ shortcut