Bug 159477 - There should be a way to insert blank spaces instead of "\t" in the Basic IDE when Tab is pressed
Summary: There should be a way to insert blank spaces instead of "\t" in the Basic IDE...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: BASIC (show other bugs)
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7.6.4.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: BASIC-IDE
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Reported: 2024-01-31 14:52 UTC by Rafael Lima
Modified: 2024-02-15 03:12 UTC (History)
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Description Rafael Lima 2024-01-31 14:52:05 UTC 
When editing code in the Basic IDE, an actual \t character is added. In modern code editors, instead of \t a sequence of blank spaces is added (usually 4 spaces).

I understand that some programmers may like having that \t character in their code, but I dislike it very much.

My proposal is: there should be a way to configure this behavior in the Basic IDE. Maybe in the Tools - Options - Basic IDE dialog we could have an entry "Add blank spaces instead of \t when pressing Tab".